From: David Buell Subject: OOP/Smalltalk Humor A friend at apple tells an anecdote of a presentation that someone from [creator of PASCAL] Wirth's research project LILITH was giving at Apple. LILITH is a "dynamic" programming environment. Like it's got browsers and classes and instances and inspectors and interpreted-like class definitions and looks a lot like the smalltalk environment does. At the end of the talk, someone from the audience stands up and asks something to this effect: >> -- You claim your system is object-oriented >> >> -- Yes >> >> -- but it doesn't have late binding >> >> -- right >> >> -- and it doesn't have garbage collection >> >> -- right >> >> -- and it doesn't have ... >> >> and he goes on to accuse the system of not having a lot of the >> things that Smalltalk has. >> >> -- then it's not really object-oriented after all, is it? >> >> -- well, who's to say what object-oriented is? >> >> -- I am. I'm Alan Kay, and I coined the term. >> Regards, Dave