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Re:Alan Kay on the misunderstanding of OOP (1998) by gnaritas on Friday June 24, 2016 @02:06PM (#11972037)
> Technically that's what classes gives you, not objects. But agreed on the sentiment.

No, that's what objects give you. Classes are merely one means of creating objects (others exist), but the benefits come from the objects, not their means of construction.

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Re:Alan Kay on the misunderstanding of OOP (1998) by jdmichal on Friday June 24, 2016 @02:14PM (#11972098)
My point is that you can have an OOP language / system that consists entirely of singletons. The ability to create multiple object instances from a template is classes or prototypes or whatever other mechanism. It's not something strictly necessary to OOP.
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Re:Alan Kay on the misunderstanding of OOP (1998) by gnaritas on Saturday June 25, 2016 @11:40PM (#11979286)
Yea, I have no idea what you're trying to convey. Additionally, a system built entirely with singletons isn't object oriented, it's procedural with modules.
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