The type/object distinction and possible synthesis of OOP and imperative programming languages

[rusi]

On Apr 15, 8:48 am, Mark Janssen <dreamingforw... at gmail.com> wrote:
> That all being said, the thrust of this whole effort is to possibly
> advance Computer Science and language design, because in-between the
> purely concrete "object" architecture of the imperative programming
> languages and the purely abstract object architecture of
> object-oriented programming languages is a possible middle ground that
> could unite them all.

Just been poking around with eclipse.
And saw this: http://softwaresimplexity.blogspot.in/2013/02/where-java-fails.html

For context, the guy seems to be big in the java/eclipse community
[Or at least is well hyped -- he's finalist for eclipse' best
developer award]

This context is needed to underscore something he says in one of the
comments on that page:

"OO just sucks…"