Re: Is OOP a paradigm or methodology?

Zorro wrote: 
Yes, I remember the attempts to add OO to prolog. Are you saying they
succeeded in producing something useful?

The view of pure OO, in the sense of paradigm, proved too limiting like
all other paradigms. For instance, Smalltalk and Eiffel.

I'm curious what reference you use for classifying Smalltalk and Eiffel as having been proved, ".. too limiting.."
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