Re: OOP vs imperative, was Hello v1.0.3 distributed programming language available (alpha)

From	anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
Newsgroups	comp.compilers
Subject	Re: OOP vs imperative, was Hello v1.0.3 distributed programming language available (alpha)
Date	2014-09-15 08:07 +0000
Organization	Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien
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Martin Ward <martin@gkc.org.uk> writes:
> Simula, which dates from around 1962, is probably the original
> object-oriented language, and is imperative.

Simula 67 is the first object-oriented language.  Earlier Simula
versions were not.

> But Smalltalk, for which development started in 1969, was a very early functional
> object-oriented language.

Smalltalk is an imperative language; e.g., it contains assignment and
its objects contain changeable state.  What makes you think that
Smalltalk is functional?

- anton
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M. Anton Ertl
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Hello v1.0.3 distributed programming language available (alpha) Boris Burshteyn <bburshteyn@amsdec.com> - 2014-09-09 12:38 -0700
  Re: Hello v1.0.3 distributed programming language available (alpha) glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2014-09-10 01:48 +0000
    Re: OOP vs imperative, was Hello v1.0.3 distributed programming language available (alpha) Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-09-10 04:58 +0000
    Re: OOP vs imperative, was Hello v1.0.3 distributed programming language available (alpha) Martin Ward <martin@gkc.org.uk> - 2014-09-10 09:44 +0100
    Re: OOP vs imperative, was Hello v1.0.3 distributed programming language available (alpha) anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-09-10 16:14 +0000
      Re: OOP vs imperative, was Hello v1.0.3 distributed programming language available (alpha) Martin Ward <martin@gkc.org.uk> - 2014-09-11 13:16 +0100
        Re: OOP vs imperative, was Hello v1.0.3 distributed programming language available (alpha) anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-09-15 08:07 +0000

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