Lawrence D'Oliveiro a écrit :
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, James
Mills wrote:
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Object orientation IS procedural.
Correction: OOP is Imperative.
No, "procedural".
Nope, "imperative" !-)
The functional unit is called an "expression", the encapsulation of which is
called a "function". Hence "functional".
Similarly, the procedural unit is commonly called a "statement", the
encapsulation of which is a "procedure", not an "imperator".
Hence "procedural".
"imperative" means that the computation is done through statements that
modify the program's state.
"procedural" means that these statements are organized in "procedures",
that group a serie of statements.
OO is based on objects (that carry and manage internal state) and
messages. A message can happen to trigger a serie of statements that
modifies a program state, so you could say (and this wouldn't be totally
false) that an OO method can be seen as a procedure (or at least some
methods...), but the whole program's organization is still not the same
as one seen in procedural programming. IOW, it's more a matter of how
you design / organize your (otherwise imperative) program than anything
else.
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