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Right exactly. The author implies that Elixir isn't an "OOP language" but I agree with you that (AIUI) it's almost the opposite -- it's descended from Erlang whose, AIUI, entire raison d'etre is programming in a style that is strongly oriented around objects (i.e. instances that usually represent entities in the application domain, and communicate by message passing). Immutability is orthogonal.

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ljm2y ago

I mean, I agree as much in that OOP in its classical Alan Kay definition has little to nothing in common with what we currently call OOP.

Erlang definitely has more in common with Smalltalk and even Lisp in terms of its architecture and also the ability to modify it at runtime. At least in elixir, state and behaviour aren't intermingled as in Java-style OOP (which PHP, C# and Ruby do mostly)

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ljm2y ago

I mean, I agree as much in that OOP in its classical Alan Kay definition has little to nothing in common with what we currently call OOP.

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