Re: OOP vs imperative, was Hello v1.0.3 distributed programming language available (alpha)

anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
Mon, 15 Sep 2014 08:07:26 GMT

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From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 08:07:26 GMT
Organization: Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien
References: 14-09-005 14-09-007 14-09-010 14-09-012
Keywords: OOP, history
Posted-Date: 15 Sep 2014 11:54:47 EDT

Martin Ward <martin@gkc.org.uk> writes:
> Simula, which dates from around 1962, is probably the original
> object-oriented language, and is imperative.


Simula 67 is the first object-oriented language. Earlier Simula
versions were not.


> But Smalltalk, for which development started in 1969, was a very early functional
> object-oriented language.


Smalltalk is an imperative language; e.g., it contains assignment and
its objects contain changeable state. What makes you think that
Smalltalk is functional?


- anton
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