B.S. in Information and Computer Science & Systems Programming, Georgia Institute of Technology · Author has 7.4K answers and 10M answer views · Updated 5y ·
It comes from a quote attributed to Alan Kay at http://wiki.c2.com/?AlanKayQuotes which says
- "I invented the term Object-Oriented and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind."
That should give you a hint of why the engineer used that term.
C++ and Java are a class of hybrid O-O languages. They are procedure languages that O-O features when specifily requested.
In Smalltalk and it direct descendants such a Squeak and Pharo are pureO-O. Which are the “Alan Kay OOP” category.
Alan Kay monitors Quora and may actual give his opinion.
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