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From: jima@hplsla.HP.COM (Jim Adcock)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Re: What is OOP / OOD
Message-ID: <9450009@hplsla.HP.COM>
Date: 5 Oct 89 22:19:31 GMT
References: <1989Oct2.161552.14306@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
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>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.

I got around to reading the Blair, Gallagher & Malik article, and liked it
a lot.  They make a reasoned argument for a more general discription of
"object oriented" than Wegner.  They also cover a number of the most
recent language issues.