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[theweaselking]

From A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages:

1980 - Alan Kay creates Smalltalk and invents the term "object oriented." When asked what that means he replies, "Smalltalk programs are just objects." When asked what objects are made of he replies, "objects." When asked again he says "look, it's all objects all the way down. Until you reach turtles."

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[silmaril.livejournal.com]

...yes, yes that is pretty much my understanding of OOL.

[anktastic.livejournal.com]

One small correction: it was not Ada but Linda Lovelace who invented Deep Thought.