Re: RFC 125 (v2) Components in the Perl Core Should Have Well-Defined APIs and Behavior

[John Porter]

Dan Sugalski wrote:
> At 07:38 PM 9/28/00 +0000, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
> >These APIs should be documented separately from the implementation, in a
> >language-independent and an object-oriented way.
> 
> Unfortunately the two conflict. C, APL, Fortran, and COBOL aren't 
> particularly object-oriented... 

But those are implementation languages.  UML is object oriented,
and [i]language independent; a design expressed in UML could be
implemented in a non-OO language.


> I think, though, that the core interface should be procedural.

I agree.  We should not confuse OOD with OOP.

-- 
John Porter

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