They implemented their VM even in Assembler and microcode in the seventies, so C/C++ was a step forward.
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yes, just referring to his famous quote :
"I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind." :p
10:33 actually I made up the term
10:35 object-oriented and I can tell you I did
10:38 not have C++ in mind
10:41 [Applause]
10:49 so the important thing here is I have
10:54 many of the same feelings about small
10:57 talk
https://www.reddit.com/r/node/comments/a02suz/the_forgotten_...
He neither had Smalltalk-76/80, Simula 67, Java, Python or Ruby in mind. What he understood by OO is rather "object based" in todays language.
iirc After the laughter, Alan Kay continues and says he didn't have Smalltalk in mind either.
Great, because Stroustrup didn't have Smaltalk in mind when he invented C++ :).
He based it on Simula.