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		dsego on Jan 27, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OO in Python is mostly pointless I think OOP caught on because of IDEs with auto-complete functionality, you type object dot and it offers all the method names for you.

cgrealy on Jan 27, 2021 [–]

OOP was around long before IDEs were that popular.

mac01021 on Jan 28, 2021 | [–]

When was that?

cgrealy on Jan 28, 2021 | | [–]

Depends on how far back you want to go. The term "object oriented programming" was coined back in the 60s. Languages like Smalltalk were introduced in the 70s.

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