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And Alan Kay (first user of the term "object oriented programming") said:

"OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things. It can be done in Smalltalk and in LISP. There are possibly other systems in which this is possible, but I'm not aware of them."

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Alan Kay’s definition of OOP is quite distinct from the mainstream one, and just because he is the coiner of the term doesn’t make him automatically right.

I didn't say, or mean to imply, he was automatically right, just pointing out yet another interpretation

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