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From: Bill Gooch <bill@iconcomp.com>
Subject: Re: Interesting but sensitive topic to discuss (HELP: - OOP and CASE tools)
Date: 1996/11/14
Date: 1996-11-14T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <328B3E26.41DF@iconcomp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 56fb16$pkq@watnews1.watson.ibm.com


David N. Smith wrote:
> ....
> I do agree that classes are often thought of as necessary an basic in all
> OOP languages and the definition of OOP often includes the concept of
> class. That's basically wrong.

Agreed.

> Classes are necessary and basic only in those restricted 'OOP' languages
> that use type inheritence.

Type inheritance is independent of classes; indeed, it is
not at all restricted to OO.  

I'd say that classes are necessary and basic only in those
restricted "OOP" languages in which classes are necessary
and basic.  None of the useful things about OO depend on a
class/instance stratification. 

-- 
William D. Gooch             bill@iconcomp.com
Icon Computing               http://www.iconcomp.com     
Texas liaison for the International Programmers Guild 
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  reply	other threads:[~1996-11-14  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1996-11-06  0:00 Interesting but sensitive topic to discuss (HELP: - OOP and CASE tools) Dong Oh Kim
1996-11-06  0:00 ` Paul_Gover
1996-11-06  0:00   ` Alan Lovejoy
1996-11-07  0:00     ` Piercarlo Grandi
1996-11-10  0:00       ` Vlastimil Adamovsky
1996-11-11  0:00         ` Piercarlo Grandi
1996-11-11  0:00           ` Anthony Menio
1996-11-18  0:00             ` Piercarlo Grandi
1996-11-20  0:00               ` Anthony Menio
1996-11-27  0:00                 ` Piercarlo Grandi
1996-11-12  0:00           ` Anthony Menio
1996-11-18  0:00             ` Piercarlo Grandi
1996-11-19  0:00               ` Anthony Menio
1996-11-27  0:00                 ` Piercarlo Grandi
1996-11-10  0:00       ` drs
1996-11-12  0:00         ` Piercarlo Grandi
1996-11-11  0:00       ` Daniel Drasin
1996-11-12  0:00         ` Anthony Menio
1996-11-08  0:00     ` Paul_Gover
1996-11-08  0:00       ` Ell
1996-11-08  0:00         ` Alan Lovejoy
1996-11-13  0:00           ` Ell
1996-11-08  0:00       ` Alan Lovejoy
     [not found]         ` <6KZQfjK-3RB@herold.franken.de>
1996-11-10  0:00           ` Interesting but sensitive topic to discuss (HELP: - OOP and CASE t Chris
1996-11-10  0:00             ` Vlastimil Adamovsky
1996-11-11  0:00         ` Interesting but sensitive topic to discuss (HELP: - OOP and CASE tools) Bill Gooch
1996-11-12  0:00           ` Jan Steinman
1996-11-12  0:00             ` Alan Lovejoy
1996-11-13  0:00               ` Nick Thurn
1996-11-13  0:00                 ` Alan Lovejoy
1996-11-14  0:00                   ` Nick Thurn
1996-11-12  0:00           ` Alan Lovejoy
1996-11-13  0:00             ` Nick Thurn
1996-11-13  0:00             ` Ell
1996-11-14  0:00             ` Bill Gooch
1996-11-19  0:00               ` Tim Ottinger
1996-11-10  0:00       ` vlad
1996-11-12  0:00     ` Robert C. Martin
1996-11-12  0:00       ` Alan Lovejoy
1996-11-14  0:00         ` David N. Smith
1996-11-14  0:00           ` Bill Gooch [this message]
1996-11-20  0:00         ` Robert C. Martin
1996-11-20  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-20  0:00           ` Michael Malak
1996-11-20  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-26  0:00           ` Tucker Taft
1996-12-03  0:00             ` Robert C. Martin
1996-12-08  0:00               ` Tucker Taft
1996-11-06  0:00   ` Jan Steinman
1996-11-07  0:00     ` Paul_Gover
1996-11-12  0:00     ` Robert C. Martin
1996-11-12  0:00       ` Alan Lovejoy
1996-11-12  0:00       ` Snowball
1996-11-15  0:00         ` Soren Skogstad Nielsen
1996-11-28  0:00         ` Piercarlo Grandi
1996-11-28  0:00         ` Piercarlo Grandi
1996-11-06  0:00   ` Snowball
1996-11-13  0:00     ` Peter Pflaum
1996-11-13  0:00       ` David N. Smith
1996-11-07  0:00 ` Interesting but sensitive topic to discuss (HELP: - OOP and CASE t Joachim Durchholz
1996-11-08  0:00   ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-11-09  0:00     ` Piercarlo Grandi
1996-11-13  0:00       ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-11-27  0:00         ` Piercarlo Grandi
1996-11-08  0:00 ` Joachim Durchholz
1996-11-12  0:00   ` Alaric B. Williams
1996-11-13  0:00   ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-11-08  0:00 ` Nick Thurn
1996-11-08  0:00   ` Alan Lovejoy
1996-11-11  0:00     ` Nick Thurn
1996-11-11  0:00       ` Paul_Gover
1996-11-11  0:00         ` Interesting but sensitive topic to discuss (HELP: - OOP and CASE tools) David N. Smith
1996-11-12  0:00           ` Anthony Menio
1996-11-11  0:00         ` Interesting but sensitive topic to discuss (HELP: - OOP and CASE t Anthony Menio
1996-11-08  0:00 ` Alan Lovejoy
1996-11-08  0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-11-11  0:00 ` Interesting but sensitive topic to discuss (HELP: - OOP and CASE tools) Cesar A. Gonzalez Perez
1996-11-12  0:00 ` Interesting but sensitive topic to discuss (HELP: - OOP and CASE t Joachim Durchholz
1996-11-20  0:00   ` Piercarlo Grandi
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