alt Hacker NewsAFAIU, Simula focused more on types and inheritance and less on late-binding, in particular not of "all things".
Alan Kay's distaste for (static) types is just his opinion and an original contribution of IMO rather dubious value.
After the dust has settled, it seems like the most valuable parts of OOP are private data, convenience (no need to repeat the class name in a method call), good fit for some domains, and interfaces.
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> After the dust has settled, it seems like the most valuable parts of OOP are private data, convenience (no need to repeat the class name in a method call), good fit for some domains, and interfaces.
Kay also considers CLOS and related things “true OO” and those do repeat class name in method call.
private data, convenience
Which can be easily achieved without OOP.
> Alan Kay's distaste for (static) types
Citation needed.
TFA quotes him saying almost the opposite:
> (I'm not against types, but I don't know of any type systems that aren't a complete pain, so I still like dynamic typing.)