The Myths of Object-Orientation

Authors:
James Noble
Affiliations:
School of Engineering and Computer Science, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Venue:
Genoa Proceedings of the 23rd European Conference on ECOOP 2009 --- Object-Oriented Programming
Year:
2009

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Abstract

Object-Orientation is now over forty years old. In that time, Object-Oriented programming has moved from a Scandinavian cult to a world-wide standard. In this talk I'll revisit the essential principles -- myths -- of object-orientation, and discuss their role in the evolution of languages from SIMULA to Smalltalk to C+ + to Java and beyond. Only by keeping the object-oriented faith can we ensure full-spectrum object-oriented dominance for the next forty years in the project for a new object-oriented century!