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From: scc@cl.cam.ac.uk (Stephen Crawley)
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Subject: Re: What is OOP / OOD
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Date: 4 Oct 89 14:28:15 GMT
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>>Sorry if this doesn't belong here, but could someone please tell me
>>exactly what IS Object Oriented Programming or Object Oriented Design ?
>
>What is god? what is motherhood? what is apple_pie? What is jazz?  What is?
>
> 1/2 :-)
>
>......More than half seriously, I'm not sure anyone agrees on what OOP is, but
>everyone agrees the other guy isn't doing it.

I often refer people to the article "Learning the Language" by Peter Wegner
in the March '89 issue of Byte.  Wegner gives good definitions for lots of 
terms (e.g. object-oriented, object-based, class, abstract data type)
that are commonly used as buzzwords.  In the process of doing this, he 
classifies a number of well established programming languages and systems.

-- Steve