C++ is not an object-oriented language

[Henry Spencer]

> In an object oriented language, just as in a value oriented language,
> variables are not typed in any way.

What we have here is a religious argument over the semantics of the words
"object oriented".  Nobody is going to learn anything by continuing it.
"My definition of 'object oriented' is better than yours, so there!"

What is clear is that C++ has many of the advantages of languages like
Smalltalk, plus compile-time type checking (i.e. compile-time error finding)
and efficient execution.  A potent combination, that.
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