Alan Kay Was Wrong About Him Being Wrong

Time to time someone is asking me what I think about what Alan Kay, the father of OOP, the designer of Smalltalk, the first object-oriented language, said in 1998 about OOP. He literally said that the very term "object" was misleading and a more appropriate one would be "messaging." Here is what I think.

[image error]Rain Man (1988) by Barry Levinson

I believe that there are two orthogonal means of interaction between objects: messaging and composition. Let's say, we have a point...