From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2010-07-12T04:04:40+09:00
Subject: Re: from functions to classes, where should I start?

On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Colin Bartlett <colinb2r@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Kay’s term “object-oriented” got hijacked when Peter Wegner published paper
> entitled “Dimensions of Object Based Language Design” at the second OOPSLA
> conference in which he defined “object-oriented” as “objects + classes +
> inheritance.”
> http://www.smalltalk.org/smalltalk/TheEarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk_Abstract.html

Thanks for the mention Colin.

Recently, one of Wegner's students, William Cook,  drafted a paper
http://userweb.cs.utexas.edu/~wcook/Drafts/2009/essay.pdf which points
out what was missed back in the 1980s, that there is a vast difference
between Abstract Data Types and Objects, something which I'd argue
caused a lot of confusion over the past 25 or so years.


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