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From: jima@hplsla.HP.COM (Jim Adcock)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Re: What is OOP / OOD
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Date: 4 Oct 89 19:37:45 GMT
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> I can strongly recommend Bertrand Meyer's "Object-Oriented Software
> Construction," Prentice-Hall '88.  This is one of the few places I've seen
> anyone actually set forth the reasons for doing O-O at all, what kinds of
> characteristics one might want in an O-O programming system, etc.  Examples
> are all in the author's (commercial) language Eiffel, but the lessons are
> pretty much language-independent.  A great intro.

I think the Meyer is a good book, worth reading, but heavy on the Eiffel
dogma.  At least read several different books, the Smalltalk books, the
Brad Cox book, a good C++ book like Lippmann, etc, so that all the dogma
you get exposed to from various sources will start to cancel out.  Finally,
spend more than a superficially amount of time programming in the different
languages in order to get over the initial blush of playing with a new toy,
and start finding the real language problems you have to work around --
problems that every language has in one form or another.  Also Journal of
Object Oriented Programming covers several languages each month.