I remember a guy in Germany posted an email from Alan Kay that
explains the history and viewpoint(s) of his take on
"object-oriented".

  That email is a good home work reading for the guy...

-- Yoshiki

At Mon, 13 Mar 2006 19:01:51 -0300 ,
Jecel Assumpcao Jr wrote:
> 
> Brad,
> > I'm very happy with the technical quality of O'Reilly books. Am I 
> > missing something?
> 
> everything that guy wrote makes perfect sense and is very true... from a
> certain viewpoint (to quote Obi-Wan Kenobi (no need to point out that I
> slightly changed the wording - I did it on purpose)). And that viewpoint
> is that OOP means Simula->C++->Java. See the "Algol: Smalltalk, I am
> your grandfather!" thread for alternative viewpoints.
> 
> -- Jecel
>