On Friday, 5 October 2018 at 19:04:26 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
(Abscissa) wrote:
On 10/04/2018 11:40 PM, rikki cattermole wrote:
[...]
It's not *my* statement about newer/older. If you recall the
programming atmosphere around 2000, OO was widely being touted
as a newer thing, superior to "old-fashioned" imperative, even
though there's a million things about that whole assessment
that are false (not the least of which being the at-the-time
popular notion that Java-style OO somehow wasn't still
imperative, or, as you pointed out, that OO was a new
invention).
There's one minor aspect of it that was true though: Widespread
popularity of OO was certainly a new thing, even if OO itself
wasn't.
The hype was hight also in the 90...
I remember having used (in production!) a 3rd party extension to
Clipper (I don't remember if Summer 87, or 5.0.x) that added OO
to the language!
0__o
/Paolo
