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3. The open source programming language of Squeak is radically object-oriented

The programming language is the Squeak Language, which is Smalltalk + Morphic. In many ways, Smalltalk is the mother of object-oriented programming languages, and indeed it is a direct precursor and the inspiration of the Apple and Windows interface. Yet the Squeak approach to object-oriented programming is quite different from - say - Delphi or Java or C# or Visual Basic, all of which also are nominally "object-oriented". In fact, these other "object-oriented" programming languages have taken over some techniques and ideas that started (mostly) in Smalltalk - but they do NOT immerse the uses in a total computing environment made from objects, in which the user has the full open source code of all the objects in the environment, and can directly access and change the code of any object that is working in the system, that is itself entirely composed from objects programmable inside the system.

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