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Adam Millerchip
@adam@toots.adamu.jp  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

Hot take: they're processes on the #beam

https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/09/25/what-are-the-objects-in-object-oriented-programming/

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What Are The “Objects” in “Object-Oriented Programming”?

We’re back to this old chestnut. In one of the exercises on my Code Craft course called “The CD Warehouse”, one of the use cases is that customers can buy a CD from the warehouse.…
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Hubert Chathi
@hubert@social.uhoreg.ca replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@adam Yup, not perfect, but I'd say pretty close to Alan Kay's vision. Closer than C++. I believe that he also envisioned that everything is an object, which is not the case in Erlang, but I don't know if that would be essential in what he would consider OOP.
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