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Subject: Re: Object-Oriented vs. Abstract Data Types
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Date: Fri, 16-Jan-87 23:33:45 EST
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Object-oriented programming is a religion that is currently in vogue.
It adds little to the original class ideas of Simula 67, and the
abstract data type ideas of Clu (which was inspired by Simula 67).

Calling a procedure call a message, and an access procedure a method
is just arcane.  Really the only thing that Smalltalk and its imitators
add is dynamic procedure binding and dynamic type checking, which I 
regard as highly undesirable.
-- 
Gordon V. Cormack     CS Dept, University of Waterloo, Canada N2L 3G1
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