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masklinn on July 16, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: How I went about learning Rust

> I'd consider something OOP if it has the same expressive power i.e. things expressible in OOP languages are easily expressible in another OOP language as well.

That doesn't even make sense on its face. There are things which are trivially expressible in Smalltalk and I'm not sure even possible to wrangle in Java.

Ygg2 on July 16, 2022 [–]

That's because Smalltalk OOP isn't the OOP in the sense Java is, some refer to Java Style as Class oriented Programming.

masklinn on July 16, 2022 | [–]

That doesn’t make your original comment any less nonsensical, and still makes no sense: Smalltalk is very much class-based. Are you mixing up Smalltalk and Self?

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