From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,7f8fc37d854731d6 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,7f8fc37d854731d6 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 10461e,7f8fc37d854731d6 X-Google-Attributes: gid10461e,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,7f8fc37d854731d6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,7f8fc37d854731d6 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) Subject: Re: Interesting but sensitive topic to discuss (HELP: - OOP and CASE t Date: 1996/11/08 Message-ID: <55ud3a$n3e$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 195213717 references: <32813322.41C6@kyebek3.kjist.ac.kr> <55pqr5$136a@grimsel.zurich.ibm.com> <328109CD.6685@concentric.net> <6KRKVf9k3RB@herold.franken.de> organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia newsgroups: comp.object,comp.lang.ada,comp.ai,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk nntp-posting-user: ok Date: 1996-11-08T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: jhd@herold.franken.de (Joachim Durchholz) writes: >I think this is a bit misleading. >OO program texts are definitely systems of classes (or, rather, textual >representations of classes). This is an overgeneralisaton. Not every OO language is class based. The OO system in Xlisp-Stat, for example, is not class based, and nor is SELF. Nor need there be any text or fixed collection of texts that describes a SELF program. SELF is not alone in this: I have used a GUI builder where you constructed _objects_ on the screen that were then dumped out as textul representations to be used to construct _objects_, not classes. >> The architecture and design of a program is a function of what **objects** >> it contains and how they interact. >Well, now I have to disagree. Well, no, you don't. What you _do_ have to do is understand that there is more than one way to skin a cat, and that in some OO languages you _do_ describe objects and methods that are attached to objects (individual objects, not classes), while in some other OO languages you _don't_. Looked at NewtonScript lately? -- Mixed Member Proportional---a *great* way to vote! Richard A. O'Keefe; http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/%7Eok; RMIT Comp.Sci.