Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!rochester!udel!burdvax!gvlv2!faatcrl!warb From: warb@faatcrl.UUCP (Dan Warburton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Object Oriented Programming Message-ID: <184@faatcrl.UUCP> Date: 1 May 89 03:44:30 GMT References: <14058@louie.udel.EDU> Organization: FAA Technical Center, Atlantic City NJ Lines: 5 Object oriented programming includes the concept of identity into your programs. Individule objects have idenity and refer to "self" and send messages (invoke generics) to others. Also objects are arranged in a heirachy (spell-check) so similar attributes may be inherited from ancestors.