<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.infoq.com&#x2F;interviews&#x2F;johnson-armstrong-oop" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.infoq.com&#x2F;interviews&#x2F;johnson-armstrong-oop</a><p>I swear I had another source, but yes. He has said that he views Erlang as OO in the Alan Kay sense. Which, honestly, was my first thought when I tried Erlang. Each process is, essentially, a concurrent closure, and closures (in the functional language world) are the poor man&#x27;s objects [1].<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;c2.com&#x2F;cgi&#x2F;wiki?ClosuresAndObjectsAreEquivalent" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;c2.com&#x2F;cgi&#x2F;wiki?ClosuresAndObjectsAreEquivalent</a>