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From: Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: Parameter Modes, In In Out and Out
Date: 05 Feb 2001 10:00:26 -0500
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Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> writes:

> In article <ud7d1dtiw.fsf@gsfc.nasa.gov>,
>   Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote:
> 
> > I had hoped to say "OOP is Object Oriented Programming. This
> > mean structuring the code around objects, and using
> > information hiding and abstraction to enforce the notion of
> > objects".
> >
> > In that sense, a lot of C code is Object Oriented, and
> > certainly all of my code is, since my college graduate days.
> 
> Are you certain you are not confusing objects and OOP with
> abstract data types, and programming with ADT's.

Well, that is certainly possible; I see ADT's as a good way to
implement objects. In my definition above, I should have said "...
structuring the code around objects in the problem space ..." to
include the notion of real-world objects corresponding to software
objects.

Perhaps I am talking about Object Oriented Design, as opposed to
Object Oriented Programming. I never saw the point in making that
distinction. 

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-- Stephe