Re: - OOF

talk_at_forth.com wrote:
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> Original sender: Marcel Hendrix <mhx_at_iaehv.IAEhv.nl>
> "Marc Hawley" <marc_hawley_at_email.msn.com> wrote Re: SFTALK - OOF
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> > Just to try and incite a discussion, I will take the position that "object
> > oriented" programming is just a passing fashion; any gains from "reusing"
>
> A "passing fashion" of the last 12 or more years? (Dick Pountain's book
> appeared in 1987).
>

Well, in the interests of discussion....:-)
I own Pountain's book, and have looked at it, but not given it serious study.
As has been observed elsewhere, what Pountain calls "object oriented" programming
is closer to what the field calls implementation of abstract data types.
Object programming has come to mean something different -encapsulation of
data structures and methods.
  -LenZ-
(snip)

> -marcel

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Received on Wed Jan 27 1999 - 12:23:38 PST