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From: timm@runxtsa.runx.oz.au (Tim Menzies)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Re: The essence of objects...
Keywords: oops objects co2 objective c
Message-ID: <1964@runxtsa.runx.oz.au>
Date: 12 Jul 90 09:18:25 GMT
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In article <1280@media01.UUCP> pkr@media01.UUCP (Peter Kriens) writes:
>The essence of objects...
>
>	The essence of oops is to specify 
>	a functionality only once.

yes, yes, yes. oop is a way of normalising procedural knowledge. database
designers realised that we had to normalise data decades ago. now, we
normalise code as well.