Re: Interesting take on Paradigms (OO vs Procedural)

While wanting to use different terms, to avoid confusion and baggage, was a
good idea, their choice was singularly poor. So far as I can tell EVERY
OO-oriented term carries unwanted meanings - e.g., my tiff last year with PD
over "function".

Having said this, I'm fully aware that nobody will ever be able to prevent
newcomers to a field from trying to equate the new concepts to things
they're familar with.

So let's rename all object-oriented things as either completely new,
artificial words - fomas and granfalloons, for instance, for objects and
methods <wink> - or auto-oriented things. Then at least there will be no
overlap.

PL


Howard Brazee <howard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:08:44 -0500, "Rick Smith" <ricksmith@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

Why did the originators of object orientation rename "structures" to
"objects"
and "procedures" to "methods"? Hubris and arrogance, in my opinion.
Some
people believe object orientation is a completely new "paradigm" for
programming. The best known paradigms for computer languages are these.

I believe it was to divorce their design from programming terms. Of
course, that didn't last.


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