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Subject: Re: What is OOP? --- The most important aspect of OOP
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On 12/1/2024 10:34 PM, Tim Rentsch wrote:
> wij <wyniijj5@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> In response to the question of the subject line...
> 
> Just because a program is being written in a language that has
> functions doesn't mean that what is being done is functional
> programming.
> 
> Just because a program is being written in a language that has
> classes and objects doesn't mean that what is being done is
> object-oriented programming.
> 
> More than anything else object-oriented programming is a mindset
> or a programming methodology.  It helps if the language being
> used supports classes, etc, but the methodology can be used even
> in languages that don't have them.
> 
> A quote:
> 
>      My guess is that object-oriented programming will be in the
>      1980s what structured programming was in the 1970s.
>      Everyone will be in favor of it.  Every manufacturer will
>      promote his products as supporting it.  Every manager will
>      pay lip service to it.  Every programmer will practice it
>      (differently).  And no one will know just what it is.
> 
> That paragraph is taken from a paper written more than 40 years
> ago.  The prediction came true with a vengeance, even more than
> the author expected.  Most of what has been written about object
> oriented programming was done by people who didn't understand it.
> 
> Two more quotes, these from Alan Kay:
> 
>      I invented the term "Object Oriented Programming," and C++
>      is not what I had in mind.
> 
>      Though Smalltalk's structure allows the technique now known
>      as data abstraction to be easily (and more generally)
>      employed, the entire thrust of its design has been to
>      supersede the concept of data and procedures entirely;  to
>      replace these with the more generally useful notions of
>      activity, communication, and inheritance.

The most important aspect of OOP is the ability to decompose
a problem into independent component parts. This can eliminate
the side effects in the structured programming model that
result from global data.

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