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From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Re: What is OOP?
Message-ID: <1208@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 11 Oct 89 15:20:15 GMT
Reply-To: jeff@aiai.UUCP (Jeff Dalton)
Organization: AIAI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
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I suspect that one reason for all the confusion and for all the
dogmatic definitions of "object-oriented" is some people will
claim almost anything is object-oriented.  In a sense, they're
right, because you can "think objects" in almost any language.
But once someone says Ada is object-oriented because it has
overloading, just for example, someone else will come up with
a definition that rules out overloading as having anything to
to with OOP.