Bjarne didn't have Alan in mind when designing C++ either.

If he had, we would all be better off.

That's why so much more real-world software was written in Smalltalk than in C++.

Wait...

Fun fact: The Wright brothers didn't have modern airliners in mind when they invented airplanes.

It's almost as if language and meaning evolve in the minds of people in strange ways.

Made up the term, but didn't invent object orientation. The real inventors were more generous.

A selective quotation which misses the point.

"Actually I made up the term "object-oriented", and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind. The important thing here is that I have many of the same feelings about Smalltalk."

I did not know this, or forgot, thank you for saying! There's applause and laughter after the short version of the quote, so it struck a nerve, and not without reason.

There are comments on Smalltalk at various places in the talk, but after the quote, all he says is, ..."There is one really important thing about Smalltalk, and some of languages like it, that we should pay really really close attention to, but it has almost nothing to do with the syntax and accumulated superclass library," ....

Quote is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKg1hTOQXoY&t=634s