Rob,

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Rob Withers <reefedjib at gmail.com> wrote:
> Smalltalk is a dynamic fuctional object-oriented language.

you forgot "imperative" and, hey, since you can implement Prolog in
it, "logic". ;-) Sorry for the sarcasm, but Turing completeness just
bites. (Yes, it's a bottom argument, but this kind of question just
calls for it.)

If someone'd ask me, I'd respond that Smalltalk is IMHO not a
functional language. What is the primary means of abstraction at work
in Smalltalk? Not functions, right?

The other way around, would you agree that, uh, Haskell is an
object-oriented language because you can somehow emulate objects and
state using monads?

Best,

Michael