This article is from the Object-Oriented Technology FAQ, by Bob Hathaway rjh@geodesic.com with numerous contributions by others.
Smalltalk (in its original 1972 version) was initially intended to make
computer programming easy enough for children. The idea was that manipulating
objects was something more intuitive and natural than coding procedures.
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