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Re:Brad Cox: when OOP was about “Software-ICs” and micro-tra... by int_19h on Friday December 20, 2019 @10:16PM (#21849366)
In every sense. Prototype-based OO has been a thing for a long time now.

If you look at the entire breadth of OO languages and see what they have in common, there's really only two things that are truly common: object identity, and some form of dynamic dispatch based on that. Everything else - inheritance, encapsulation etc - is optional.

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Re:Brad Cox: when OOP was about “Software-ICs” and micro-tra... by MaxBarraclough on Saturday December 21, 2019 @06:28PM (#21853954)
Prototype-based OO is a form of inheritance.

> there's really only two things that are truly common: object identity, and some form of dynamic dispatch based on that. Everything else - inheritance, encapsulation etc - is optional.

That's a broader definition than I had in mind, but I can see where you're coming from.

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