inheritance != object oriented [LWN.net]

inheritance != object oriented

Posted Mar 30, 2005 17:48 UTC (Wed) by Zarathustra (guest, #26443)
In reply to: inheritance != object oriented by zooko
Parent article: Evidence that Python is advancing into the enterprise (NewsForge)

It depends what definition of "Object Oriented" you use. I(and I think rob) was trying to use the most "popular" definition, which probably is not the most accurate.

It has been argued that Limbo is object oriented done right. It has even been argued that Plan 9 is object oriented OS, where files are objects that have a well defined interface.

But in general by OO people understands Java, C++, and if you are lucky, Smalltalk.

By the way, E is quite interesting, I would like to use it for some project, I wonder how it compares with 9p/Limbo and Erlang.

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