Re: OOP can be simply summed up as 'passing messages to objects'

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The short answer is No. B-)

While peer-to-peer collaboration is crucial to OOA/D/P and separation of message and method is crucial to decoupling implementations in OOA/D, messages aren't really what the OO paradigm is about. If one wants a thumbnail phrase I think a better one would be: basing software structure on intrinsic problem space structure through abstraction. Problem space abstraction is probably the only truly unique thing that the OO paradigm brings to the table.

However, I don't think there is an simplistic buzz-phrase to describe the OO paradigm because the paradigm is so fundamentally different than the hardware computation models that underlie most of the traditional computing space. Thus things like inheritance, various flavors of polymorphism, decoupling, implementation hiding, relationships, peer-to-peer collaboration, separation of concerns, modularity, interfaces, the RDM, and a bunch or other stuff all play together in a unique methodological package under the OO paradigm.


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