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Re:Ask HN: Is Python dying? by aninhumer on Monday February 15, 2016 @04:54AM (#11102467)
>Haskell - Type classes support polymorphism and extensibility.

While most of your examples are valid, I don't think Haskell is remotely object oriented. Type classes are not classes.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Python dying? by pjmlp on Monday February 15, 2016 @05:01AM (#11102494)
Any Haskell coder knows that.

Quoting myself

> ... support polymorphism and extensibility.

OOP isn't only the C# and Java view of the world.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Python dying? by aninhumer on Monday February 15, 2016 @08:54AM (#11103368)
Polymorphism and extensibility are features of OOP, but Haskell implements them in a rather different way to most OOP languages.

I realise people disagree about what exactly should be considered OOP, but personally I think not including inheritance in the definition broadens the term beyond usefulness.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Python dying? by bulutsuzku on Monday February 15, 2016 @09:51PM (#11107615)
There is no disagreement, Smalltalk is the object system. Object-orientation was invented in Smalltalk. Other languages and systems are just poor imitations.
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