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From: tarry@sirius.UUCP (Steve Tarry)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.software-eng
Subject: "What is Object-Oriented Programming?" by Stroustrup
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Date: 3 Feb 89 16:42:05 GMT
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In article <137@mole-end.UUCP>, mat@mole-end.UUCP (Mark A Terribile) writes:
 
> That non-OOP paradigms sometimes work better than OOP is pretty well
> established.  Arithmetic types certainly seem to require less motion when
> their implementation mixes the OOP and data abstraction paradigms.  Bjarne
> has given a paper called *What Is Object Oriented Programming?* that
> addresses some of this.  (Now where's my copy ...?)
 
This excellent article was published in the May 1988 issue of IEEE Software.
It is about the best demystification I've seen for buzzwords such as "data
abstraction" and "object oriented".
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  Steve Tarry        ...dartvax.dartmouth.edu!sirius!tarry
  Northern Telecom, Network Supports Systems Div., Concord, N.H. (for now)