- OOF

Len Zettel <zettel_at_orchard.washtenaw.cc.mi.us> writes Re: SFTALK - OOF

>> A "passing fashion" of the last 12 or more years? (Dick Pountain's book
>> appeared in 1987).

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> 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.

This is from people who did not read past page 35.

> Object programming has come to mean something different -encapsulation of
> data structures and methods.

This is exactly what Pountain does. He concentrates on abstract datatypes
because in his opinion this is where the natural advantages are. But his
code allows arbitrary manipulation of the data, not just abstract "fetch"
and "store". Check page 69 for the CASHQ example.

His mini-vocabulary technique for methods is easy to do with WORDLISTs.
It means object - method order. But the fact that there is a 115 page book
to document it is hard to beat.

-marcel

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Received on Thu Jan 28 1999 - 00:20:48 PST