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Re:Inheritance versus Composition by agumonkey on Thursday May 09, 2019 @05:53AM (#19866752)
IIUC Kay had a live organisms in mind, passing biochemical signals at will, which Erlang matches quite snug.

It's so odd because when people talked about OO I imagined something live and parallel, kinda like Kay/Erlang buuut it was so far from that.

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Re:Inheritance versus Composition by seanmcdirmid on Thursday May 09, 2019 @07:39AM (#19867245)
The first OO language, Simula 67, was exactly like that.
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Re:Inheritance versus Composition by agumonkey on Thursday May 09, 2019 @08:07AM (#19867446)
True, I almost forgot. Wasn't the model a bit slow (relatively speaking) at the time ? Maybe that's why it disappeared for a while.
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Re:Inheritance versus Composition by seanmcdirmid on Thursday May 09, 2019 @09:20AM (#19867992)
Simula 67 was designed for simulations (hence the name), it wasn’t general.

Actually, the first OO language was probably SketchPad, but it’s object model isn’t very recognizable compared to textual OO language.

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