An object-oriented Tower Of Babel

  • Authors:
  • Michael L. Nelson

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGPLAN OOPS Messenger
  • Year:
  • 1991

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Abstract

Like many new ideas, object-oriented programming (OOP) does not yet have a universally accepted definition. Even the terminology of OOP can vary greatly from one system to another. One might even say that we have created something of an object-oriented 'Tower of Babel'.While it is expected that the syntax will vary from one language to another, there is no logical reason for using identical terminology in completely differently ways. If OOP is to be accepted by the computer science community in general, then it is time to put our idiosyncrasies aside and at least agree on the basics.