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From: Loryn Jenkins <loryn@s054.aone.net.au>
Subject: Re: Module size (was Re: Software landmines)
Date: 1998/09/05
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> I think OO is about creating types, not classes.

Oh. Pity poor Smalltalk, being so mis-classified as an OO language!

But it was possible to create types in C and Pascal. What wasn't so
enforced/enabled by those languages was:
1) packaging the operations and data into coherent modules around the
types
2) minimizing the data that is passed around the system (and thus making
the system dependent on the data representation)
3) distributing complexity between many interacting sets of coherent
behaviour, and thus 'managing complexity' and 'modelling our concepts of
the world'.

Just my $0.03.

Loryn Jenkins