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Re: What is OOP? --- The most important aspect of OOP

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Richard Damon <richard@damon-family.org> writes:

> On 12/6/24 9:40 PM, olcott wrote:
>
>> On 12/1/2024 10:34 PM, Tim Rentsch wrote:
>>
>>> wij <wyniijj5@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>> In response to the question of the subject line...
>>>
>>> Just because a program is being written in a language that has
>>> functions doesn't mean that what is being done is functional
>>> programming.
>>>
>>> Just because a program is being written in a language that has
>>> classes and objects doesn't mean that what is being done is
>>> object-oriented programming.
>>>
>>> More than anything else object-oriented programming is a mindset
>>> or a programming methodology.  It helps if the language being
>>> used supports classes, etc, but the methodology can be used even
>>> in languages that don't have them.
>>>
>>> A quote:
>>>
>>>  My guess is that object-oriented programming will be in the
>>>  1980s what structured programming was in the 1970s.
>>>  Everyone will be in favor of it.  Every manufacturer will
>>>  promote his products as supporting it.  Every manager will
>>>  pay lip service to it.  Every programmer will practice it
>>>  (differently).  And no one will know just what it is.
>>>
>>> That paragraph is taken from a paper written more than 40 years
>>> ago.  The prediction came true with a vengeance, even more than
>>> the author expected.  Most of what has been written about object
>>> oriented programming was done by people who didn't understand it.
>>>
>>> Two more quotes, these from Alan Kay:
>>>
>>>  I invented the term "Object Oriented Programming," and C++
>>>  is not what I had in mind.
>>>
>>>  Though Smalltalk's structure allows the technique now known
>>>  as data abstraction to be easily (and more generally)
>>>  employed, the entire thrust of its design has been to
>>>  supersede the concept of data and procedures entirely;  to
>>>  replace these with the more generally useful notions of
>>>  activity, communication, and inheritance.
>>
>> The most important aspect of OOP is the ability to decompose
>> a problem into independent component parts.  This can eliminate
>> the side effects in the structured programming model that
>> result from global data.
>
> Excpet that normally OOP is fully based on the operation resulting in
> "side effects" as they mutate the state of the object the methods are
> part of.
>
> What this does is not ELIMINATE the side effects, but limits their
> scope.  A given object type will tend to keep its own state "private"
> and interact only with other object via "public" interfaces, allowing
> us to limit the scope we need to think of when looking at
> interactions.
>
> This makes it very different from the "functional" model, where we do
> not allow for side-effects.

I agree with the first paragraph, because of the word "normally".  I
think it's important to add that there is no inherent incompatibility
between object-oriented programming and functional programming.  There
are ways to work with classes and objects in a fully functional mode,
in much the same way that one can write code for data structures such
as AVL trees or B-trees that is fully functional (so there are no side
effects to existing trees when adding or deleting elements, for
example).

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    Re: What is OOP? Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-12-02 10:47 +0200
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    Re: What is OOP? --- The most important aspect of OOP olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2024-12-06 20:40 -0600
      Re: What is OOP? --- The most important aspect of OOP Richard Damon <richard@damon-family.org> - 2024-12-06 21:45 -0500
        Re: What is OOP? --- The most important aspect of OOP olcott <polcott333@gmail.com> - 2024-12-07 14:07 -0600
        Re: What is OOP? --- The most important aspect of OOP Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-12-09 09:51 -0800
          Re: What is OOP? --- The most important aspect of OOP Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2024-12-09 17:43 -0800
        Re: What is OOP? --- The most important aspect of OOP Mr Flibble <leigh@i42.co.uk> - 2025-03-01 21:10 +0000
      Re: What is OOP? --- The most important aspect of OOP wij <wyniijj5@gmail.com> - 2024-12-08 00:32 +0800
  Re: What is OOP? Rosario19 <Ros@invalid.invalid> - 2024-12-04 13:14 +0100
    Re: What is OOP? wij <wyniijj5@gmail.com> - 2024-12-04 22:31 +0800
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    Re: What is OOP? Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2025-03-17 10:17 -0700
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      Re: What is OOP? Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2025-03-20 17:37 +0200
        Re: What is OOP? Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2025-03-29 13:33 -0700
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        Re: What is OOP? wij <wyniijj5@gmail.com> - 2025-03-29 11:12 +0800
          Re: What is OOP? Mr Flibble <flibble@reddwarf.jmc.corp> - 2025-03-29 05:07 +0000
          Re: What is OOP? Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2025-03-29 20:39 +0300
            Re: What is OOP? Mr Flibble <flibble@reddwarf.jmc.corp> - 2025-03-29 19:03 +0000
        Re: What is OOP? Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2025-03-29 13:36 -0700
  Re: What is OOP? wij <wyniijj5@gmail.com> - 2025-09-28 16:02 +0800

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