In summary, Smalltalk's specification-like coding and incremental development environment permits a unique human-human-machine dialogue. CRC Cards allow larger groups to feel this dialogue which is based on repeated episodes of decision making. Finally, members of somewhat larger production development teams can exploit the human-human-machine dialogue on a pair-wise basis. The complex communication that then takes place will support a High-Performance organization with many benefits, a few of which I have mentioned.
http://www.purl.org/stefan_ram/pub/doc_kay_oop_en http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~ram/pub/pub_jf47ht81Ht/begriff_objektorientierte_programmierung_de Alan Kay coined the phrase Object-Oriented Programming, but this is not his fault. He has repeatedly said that to him, OOP is about encapsulation and message passing, not inheritance and ontologies of types. But like so many other Cargo Cults in Computer Programming culture, OOP and inheritance are enchained like ancient mariner and albatross