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From: "Pat Rogers" <progers@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Types vs classes (was Re: Module size (was Re: Software
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Date: 1998/09/04
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Loryn Jenkins wrote in message <35F0702D.E4F66E07@s054.aone.net.au>...
>> 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.

Motherhood seems to be going rather cheaply, nowadays.  Did you have a point
about types in OO languages?