Why Aren't People Using Smalltalk?

Re:Why Aren't People Using Smalltalk? by vezzy-fnord on Monday August 17, 2015 @06:25PM (#10076539)

As a result of growing interest in functional programming, there is a large blanket hatred of OO emerging, particularly from newbies who see the two paradigms as intrinsically opposed, and who have acquired bad tastes from the standard polymorphism/encapsulation/inheritance languages that most people know as OO.

Smalltalk gets swept under the rug as well in the process.

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Re:Why Aren't People Using Smalltalk? by horrido on Monday August 17, 2015 @07:52PM (#10076835)

Exactly! As mentioned in the article, Alan Kay's vision of OOP was corrupted into the rubbish we see today in C++, Java, Scala, etc. Today's conventional OOP is nothing more than an extension to Abstract Data Types...useful, but not nearly as powerful as Smalltalk's "true" OOP (https://medium.com/@richardeng/getting-the-message-667d77ff7...).

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