I know Smalltalk, and I think object oriented programming as taught and practiced broadly today owes more to Simula. The idea that the language itself should be a programmable thing was the key of Smalltalk. Python, Ruby, etc. are all still using it as a way to create fancy record types.
And I originally planned to make this a series of posts, going into Smalltalk, then exploring the later lineages (Grady Booth's super structured approach, Self's getting rid of classes), but realize that I didn't have time.
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I know Smalltalk, and I think object oriented programming as taught and practiced broadly today owes more to Simula. The idea that the language itself should be a programmable thing was the key of Smalltalk. Python, Ruby, etc. are all still using it as a way to create fancy record types.
And I originally planned to make this a series of posts, going into Smalltalk, then exploring the later lineages (Grady Booth's super structured approach, Self's getting rid of classes), but realize that I didn't have time.