I have a philosophical question. i have read design principles behind smalltalk (http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/smalltalk.html) and i have notice many relation with platonic idea world of Platone and after Plotino, and also the art of memory of Giordano Bruno. Someone know if smalltalk has been influenced also from this idea?
Possibly pertinent: at OOPSLA 2000 there was a paper, "An Aristotlean understanding of object-oriented programming"<p><a href="http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=354222.353194" rel="nofollow">http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=354222.353194</a>