On 4/18/2013 9:24 PM, Mark Janssen wrote:
One of the nice things about OOP is it means so many different things to
different people. All of whom believe with religious fervor that they
know the true answer.
Here's a simple rule to resolve the ambiguity. Whoever publishes
first, gets to claim origin of a word and its usage, kind of like a
BDFL. The rest can adapt around that, make up their own word, or be
corrected as the community requires.
You won't solve the problem of confusing, ambiguous, or conflicting
terminology by making up a rule. "Object-oriented" means subtly
different things to different people. It turns out that computing is a
complex field with subtle concepts that don't always fit neatly into a
categorization. Python, Java, Javascript, Ruby, Smalltalk, Self, PHP,
C#, Objective-C, and C++ are all "object-oriented", but they also all
have differences between them. That's OK. We aren't going to make up a
dozen words as alternatives to "object-oriented", one for each language.
You seem to want to squeeze all of computer science and programming into
a tidy hierarchy. It won't work, it's not tidy. I strongly suggest you
read more about computer science before forming more opinions. You have
a lot to learn ahead of you.
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