Indeed, in most object-oriented languages, records are just special cases of objects.

Every other object-oriented language in widespread use sticks to classes.

Such a value is very similar to an object as found in object-oriented programming languages.

This is similar to early object-oriented languages such as Smalltalk.

In most object-oriented languages, objects can be referred to using references.

It is a prototype-based object-oriented language, and may thus be compared to Self.

Because of this, Java was not considered to be a pure object-oriented programming language.

Nearly all object-oriented programming languages provide some way to copy objects.

One can treat a blueprint object much as a class in other object-oriented languages.

Classes are fundamentals of an object-oriented language such as Java.