What makes a language Object-Oriented?

Question

Since debate without meaningful terms is meaningless, I figured I would point at the elephant in the room and ask: What exactly makes a language \"object-oriented\"? I\'m no

Answer 1

According to Booch, the following elements: Major:

• Abstraction
• Encapsulation
• Modularity
• Hierarchy (Inheritance)

Minor:

• Typing
• Concurrency
• Persistence