I agree that actor languages are the purest form of OOP as Alan Kay has expressed it. And unlike Smalltalk, Erlang just accepts that some things are naturally functions, not messages.

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klibertp 9 days ago | parent | next [-]

Smalltalk has no problem at all with accepting that some things are naturally functions: it has always had blocks! The call operator is `value`, not `()`, but it's the same "apply a piece of code to some values" operation.

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Rendello 9 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Erlang's Joe Armstrong and Alan Kay did a talk/interview together:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhOHn9TClXY

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