Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!news.misty.com!news.iecc.com!.POSTED!nerds-end 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: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 08:07:26 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien Lines: 19 Sender: news@iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <14-09-015@comp.compilers> References: <14-09-005@comp.compilers> <14-09-007@comp.compilers> <14-09-010@comp.compilers> <14-09-012@comp.compilers> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.iecc.com X-Trace: miucha.iecc.com 1410796487 39583 2001:470:1f07:1126:0:676f:7373:6970 (15 Sep 2014 15:54:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@iecc.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 15:54:47 +0000 (UTC) Keywords: OOP, history Posted-Date: 15 Sep 2014 11:54:47 EDT X-submission-address: compilers@iecc.com X-moderator-address: compilers-request@iecc.com X-FAQ-and-archives: http://compilers.iecc.com Xref: csiph.com comp.compilers:1381 Martin Ward 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 -- M. Anton Ertl anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/