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Re:Async Rust Is A Bad Language by Rochus on Friday September 08, 2023 @03:59PM (#37438646)
> Because the term was coined by Alan Kay

This is pretty unlikely. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36879311.

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Re:Async Rust Is A Bad Language by mkl on Friday September 08, 2023 @06:12PM (#37439996)
> The term "object-oriented" was applied to a programming language for the first time in the MIT CSG Memo 137 (April 1976)

That's publications though. Alan Kay says he used it in conversation in 1967: http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~ram/pub/pub_jf47ht81Ht/doc_kay...

There's probably also a distinction to be made between "object-oriented" and "object-oriented programming".

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Re:Async Rust Is A Bad Language by Rochus on Friday September 08, 2023 @06:31PM (#37440133)
The referenced research also considers the publications by Kay and his team (including his theses and the Smalltalk-72 and 76 manuals) and other uses of the term. I think Kay mixes things up in retrospective; in his 1968 thesis he used the terms "object language" and "object machine", but not "object-oriented"; imagine giving your new breakthrough method a name, but then not using that name anywhere in the publication; that seems unthinkable, especially with an accomplished communicator like Kay. The first time "object-oriented" appears in a publication of his or his team is in 1978.
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