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Re: What is OOP?

From	Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c++
Subject	Re: What is OOP?
Date	2025-03-29 13:36 -0700
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Mr Flibble <flibble@reddwarf.jmc.corp> writes:

> On Mon, 17 Mar 2025 10:17:51 -0700, Tim Rentsch wrote:
>
>> ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:
[...]
>>> |Procedural code (code using data structures) makes it easy to |add new
>>> functions without changing the existing data |structures.  OO code, on
>>> the other hand, makes it easy to add |new classes without changing
>>> existing functions.
>>> Robert C. Martin
>>>
>>> |Procedural code makes it hard to add new data structures |because all
>>> the functions must change.  OO code makes it hard |to add new functions
>>> because all the classes must change.
>>> Robert C. Martin
>>
>> Both of these comments make the mistake of conflating OOP with
>> programming in languages that have classes.  That isn't what Alan meant
>> by object-oriented programming.  That Smalltalk has classes is
>> incidental to what is meant by object-oriented programming;  classes in
>> Smalltalk are simply a way of implementing the abstract idea of
>> "object-oriented programming" that had started in Alan's thinking, and
>> actually much earlier than Smalltalk or even Simula.
>
> Wrong.  OOP is:
>
> * Encapsulation
> * Inheritance
> * Polymorphism (including LSP)
> * Abstractions
>
> The above necessitates the need for classes or similar.

Your view of object-oriented programs is different from Alan Kay's view
of object-oriented programming.

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What is OOP? wij <wyniijj5@gmail.com> - 2024-12-02 01:17 +0800
  Re: What is OOP? Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2024-12-01 10:43 -0800
    Re: What is OOP? Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2024-12-01 10:49 -0800
  Re: What is OOP? Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2024-12-01 15:07 -0600
    Re: What is OOP? Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2024-12-01 13:36 -0800
    Re: What is OOP? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2024-12-02 08:45 +0100
  Re: What is OOP? Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-12-01 23:43 +0200
    Re: What is OOP? wij <wyniijj5@gmail.com> - 2024-12-02 09:02 +0800
  Re: What is OOP? Richard Damon <richard@damon-family.org> - 2024-12-01 17:02 -0500
    Re: What is OOP? wij <wyniijj5@gmail.com> - 2024-12-02 08:57 +0800
      Re: What is OOP? Richard Damon <richard@damon-family.org> - 2024-12-02 08:42 -0500
      Re: What is OOP? Isaac Ganoung <inventor500@vivaldi.net> - 2024-12-08 17:56 +0000
        Re: What is OOP? wij <wyniijj5@gmail.com> - 2024-12-09 08:28 +0800
          Re: What is OOP? wij <wyniijj5@gmail.com> - 2024-12-09 09:27 +0800
  Re: What is OOP? "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2024-12-01 20:11 -0800
    Re: What is OOP? wij <wyniijj5@gmail.com> - 2024-12-02 16:27 +0800
      Re: What is OOP? wij <wyniijj5@gmail.com> - 2024-12-03 20:43 +0800
  Re: What is OOP? Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-12-01 20:34 -0800
    Re: What is OOP? Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-12-02 10:47 +0200
      Re: What is OOP? Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-12-15 04:24 -0800
        Re: What is OOP? Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-12-15 16:33 +0200
          Re: What is OOP? Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-12-16 23:59 -0800
    Re: What is OOP? wij <wyniijj5@gmail.com> - 2024-12-02 16:49 +0800
      Re: What is OOP? "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2024-12-02 14:59 -0800
        Re: What is OOP? wij <wyniijj5@gmail.com> - 2024-12-03 18:10 +0800
        Re: What is OOP? wij <wyniijj5@gmail.com> - 2024-12-03 18:38 +0800
          Re: What is OOP? "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2024-12-03 12:16 -0800
            Re: What is OOP? wij <wyniijj5@gmail.com> - 2024-12-04 08:44 +0800
              Re: What is OOP? "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2024-12-06 18:16 -0800
                Re: What is OOP? wij <wyniijj5@gmail.com> - 2024-12-08 01:01 +0800
                Re: What is OOP? Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2024-12-07 10:46 -0800
              Re: What is OOP? "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2024-12-19 21:15 -0800
                Re: What is OOP? "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2024-12-19 21:16 -0800
                Re: What is OOP? "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2024-12-19 21:17 -0800
                Re: What is OOP? "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2024-12-23 15:59 -0800
    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
    Re: What is OOP? wij <wyniijj5@gmail.com> - 2024-12-19 10:32 +0800
    Re: What is OOP? Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2025-03-17 10:17 -0700
      Re: What is OOP? wij <wyniijj5@gmail.com> - 2025-03-19 04:58 +0800
        Re: What is OOP? wij <wyniijj5@gmail.com> - 2025-03-20 23:04 +0800
      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
      Re: What is OOP? Mr Flibble <flibble@reddwarf.jmc.corp> - 2025-03-27 18:23 +0000
        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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