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From: fargo@pawl.rpi.edu (Irwin M. Fargo)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: What is OOP? (not asking for intro. stuff)
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Date: 11 Feb 90 23:51:36 GMT
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As someone who has been using Smalltalk/V 286 and has gotten an extremely
good grasp of OOP, I'd be interested in hearing what other OOP people
think OOP really is.

My mentor when learning Smalltalk said that there are a few things that
make a language object oriented.  He said they were:

encapsulated objects
message selectors and methods
classes
a class hierarchy

Do you think it makes sense to try and quantify OOP in this manner?  If so,
what ideas do you think make a language an OOPL?

I really would appreciate responses to this as I'm looking into some OOPL
design and would like some pointers.
   Thanks.

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