Re^5: Object Oriented Orientation

Only two of those things are important to OOP, and arguably only one is vital.

I suppose you are referring to polymorphism and encapsulation.

Everything else in the list are simply common ways to implement those two aspects of OO. You are absolutely correct.

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Re^6: Object Oriented Orientation by chromatic (Archbishop) on Aug 05, 2011 at 22:05 UTC
You are absolutely correct. I'm glad someone else agrees! That's why I question the recommendation to use Java to study OO. Certainly you can write good OO code in Java (I've seen it; may even have written it once or twice), but the language goes out of its way not to encourage that. Some sort of combination of Smalltalk and CLOS would fare much better, but Perl 6 is rather impractical for many uses and there's no "Learn OO with Moose" guide yet.	[reply]

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Re^6: Object Oriented Orientation
by chromatic (Archbishop) on Aug 05, 2011 at 22:05 UTC

You are absolutely correct.

I'm glad someone else agrees!

That's why I question the recommendation to use Java to study OO. Certainly you can write good OO code in Java (I've seen it; may even have written it once or twice), but the language goes out of its way not to encourage that.

Some sort of combination of Smalltalk and CLOS would fare much better, but Perl 6 is rather impractical for many uses and there's no "Learn OO with Moose" guide yet.

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