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From: Mitch.Bradley@ENG.SUN.COM
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Subject: OOP
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Date: 28 May 91 16:33:52 GMT
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> My favorite definition of Object-Oriented Programming:
>
> "A paradigm focusing on data structures, providing methods for operating on
> those data structures, and providing inheritance."
>         - Paul Snow
> Now, does anyone want to elaborate on Paul's definition?

That is indeed a nice definition, although the prominent place that it
gives to data structures may be a bit misleading.  In my mind, one of
the key points of OOP is the fact that objects hide their data structures.

I would add "without exposing their details" after "operating on those
data structures".

Mitch.Bradley@Eng.Sun.COM