title: Is Erlang Object-Oriented?
body: <p>Message-passing is a fundamental part of Erlang. Alan Kay has <a href="http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/1998-October/017019.html" rel="noreferrer">argued</a> that message-passing is a concept more important than objects in his view of object-oriented programming (and he "invented" the term!).</p>
  
  <p>Can Erlang be considered an object-oriented programming language (à la Smalltalk)?</p>