Instead of a bit-grinding processor raping and plundering data structures, we have a universe of well-behaved objects that courteously ask each other to carry out their various desires … Examples of success in this area include LISP, which is built on the model of linked structures; APL, which is built on the model of arrays; and Smalltalk, which is built on the model of communicating objects. In each case, large applications are viewed in the same way as the fundamental units from which the system is built.
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Just a tad opinionated :)
well it was 1981, with smalltalk coming from 1972, so it was quite a bit different, advanced even. (although the prose was ... not)