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> completely wrong and ruined our perception of OOP.

or maybe Erlang is its own thing and OOP -as what most people are thinking when talking about it- is the set of practices followed in languages descended from the cross between C and Smalltalk.

This explains how every introductory course in OOP using either Java, C#, Python, etc. will list some sort of OOP principles always including something along "objects talk to each other though message passing" which is hand-waved simply as something to do with taking other objects by ref

  // taking a reference
  bar.someMethod(foo)
 
Or some form of import method

  import Foo;
  
  class Bar {
    someMethod() {
       // init the import
       foo = new Foo() 
       // ... do something with it
       foo.someMethod()
    } 
  }
which is worse since you need a huge disclaimer to explain that in practice you need to account for Dependency Injection and something for Mocking.



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