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0 pointsandrekandre1mo ago0 comments

  > Brad Cox's Object-Oriented Programming: An Evolutionary Approach

i liked this one and got some good insights from it, though it was so old it was hard to get through...

the snake-oil aspect though, i think is true to a large extent:

oop became a huge hype and a marketing term, and things like c++ and java oop are so far away from the original ideas of the original 'oop' of smalltalk and we have been suffering from really bad/low quality abstractions (javas infamous FactoryFactory pattern, subclass everything etc) for a long time...

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rramadass1mo ago

> c++ and java oop are so far away from the original ideas of the original 'oop' of smalltalk

This is the fundamental misunderstanding; there is no "original OOP" but different "strains of OOP" viz. the Simula67 vs. Smalltalk models.

C++ followed the Simula approach (i.e. static object model) while Java is hybrid mixing both Simula and Smalltalk approaches (i.e. dynamic object model but with static typing). You have to look at the entirety of the OOD/OOP domain to understand how modern languages have evolved OOP support.

See also OO History: Simula and Smalltalk - https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~charlie/courses/15-214/2014-fall/sli...

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