Peak objects

  • Authors:
  • William R. Cook

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin

  • Venue:
  • ECOOP'06 Proceedings of the 20th European conference on Object-Oriented Programming
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

I was aware of a need for object-oriented programming long before I learned that it existed. I felt the need because I was using C and Lisp to build medium-sized systems, including a widely-used text editor, CASE and VLSI tools. Stated simply, I wanted flexible connections between providers and consumers of behavior in my systems. For example, in the text editor anything could produce text (files, in-memory buffers, selections, output of formatters, etc) and be connected to any consumer of text. Object-oriented programming solved this problem, and many others; it also provided a clearer way to think about the problems. For me, this thinking was very pragmatic: object solved practical programming problems cleanly.