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Comment by ahartmetz

AFAIU, Simula focused more on types and inheritance and less on late-binding, in particular not of "all things".

Alan Kay's distaste for (static) types is just his opinion and an original contribution of IMO rather dubious value.

After the dust has settled, it seems like the most valuable parts of OOP are private data, convenience (no need to repeat the class name in a method call), good fit for some domains, and interfaces.

parent ahartmetz 4 months ago

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