Who cares?
OO is a programming design method, which attempts to make the process of
writing software and maintaing it easier than it's predecessor (structured
programming? Procedural programming? whatever). These are goals, and the
principles behind OO, in my humble opinion, are just means to an end.
Suppose C++ has a great feature, which makes writing easily maintainable
code a brease, but is not in the "official" OO specification. Obviously, C++
is not an OO language in that respect, but who cares?
Arguments about which is a better programming languages, I can understand.
Arguments about which languages conform to some obscured standard which:
A. Doesn't exist
B. Is just means to an end
Those arguments are silly and unnecessary.
Shachar
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ira Abramov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 9:29 AM
Subject: OO no... here we gOO again...
> On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Ury Segal wrote:
>
> > > C++ is an object-oriented programming language? Gimme a break.
> >
> > YOU do not define what is an OO language. The world
> > aroud you, which you obviously Ignore, defined, long time
> > ago, that C++ is an OO language.
>
>
> I don't think one can decide whether C++ is OO or not before one defines
> what OO is, and that is a rather personal view. I heard some people say
> Java (which Sun dubs "pure OO", is not OO at all, since "if" statements
> are not objects and there are primitive types, others said that even
> LISP is not OO enough "but it will do", then others claim C++ is
> reference to what OO should be.
>
> so who decides?
>
> a. some formal definition from early CS people who invented OO or the
> first OO languages, there must be a paper or two online somewhere!
>
> b. a symposium we could organize with Vadik, Ury, Zadka, Chen, Gaal and
> other illuminaries (pun intended) of this list giving their definitions
> of OO. we may not agree but we will ALL be wiser, and it's better than
> this stupid flamewar.
>
> and before one of you peeps "great idea Ira, when is it happening?",
> I'll preemptively "shh" you and ask you to organize a lecture hall for
> it yourself!
>
> --
> Ira Abramov, GNU/Linux advocate.
> (@- member IGLU, Israeli Linux Users Group
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> v_/_ Use Linux or die.
>
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