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From: Ehud Lamm <mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il>
Subject: Re: pointers & OOP
Date: 1999/05/08
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On Wed, 5 May 1999, Robert Dewar wrote:

> Far too many programmers have recently discovered encapsulation and
> data abstraction, and think that they are consequently doing object
> oriented programming.
> 
> That is why I will repeat, I do not consider encapsulation features
> per se to be part of the OOP features of a modern programming language.
> 

Indeed.

See Stroustrup's paper, linked in my "suggested on-line reading" about
"what is OOP?"

(the paper is pre 95, so its views on Ada are wrong, but the general
expalanation of conecpts is quite good).

Ehud Lamm     mslamm@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il
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