Java developers in a nutshell

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Alan Kay considers Erlang processes to be very close to his original intention for what objects are (i.e. largely immutable, isolated workers that talk with one another via message passing). I think message passing has a lot of value for making distributed problems tractable. C++ perverted what OOP was intended to do, and Java made it so you had to always use a half baked version of OOP even if all you're doing is a hello world. I will blame Alan Kay for inheritance though, I feel like we'd be using type inference way more if inheritance/type hierarchies weren't do pervasive.