The Power of Interoperability: Why Objects Are Inevitable

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I just discovered this essay of Jonathan Aldrich on the Lambda 
the Ultimate forum. It tries to identify the essence of 
object-oriented programming. He provides a (technical) hypothesis 
why OOP was so successful.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aldrich/papers/objects-essay.pdf

Interesting read for people who care about definitions and what 
OOP actually means.