Object-oriented programming

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1. rramadassJan 2026
   > OOP is non-scientific and the snake-oil hype ... ridding the world of the OOP rot is a far deeper infection.

   You are spewing nonsense.

   Read Bertrand Meyer's Object-Oriented Software Construction, Barbara Liskov's Program Development in Java: Abstraction, Specification, and Object-Oriented Design and Brad Cox's Object-Oriented Programming: An Evolutionary Approach for edification on OOD/OOP.

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2. rramadassAug 2024
   The inventor of Objective-C, Brad Cox wrote the classic Object-Oriented Programming: An Evolutionary Approach where he defines the concept of "Software-IC" for "Software Component" based systems/design/programming. The underlying C language provides the gate/block-level granular abstractions while the OO features grafted on top provides the chip-level reusability with loose coupling. This is a great mental model to have while programming large systems. The book itself is a classic on how to evolve a language.

   Brad Cox's above book and Bertrand Meyer's Object-Oriented Software Construction (using the Eiffel language) were my guides to Object-Oriented Design/Programming and Software Engineering in general and i am eternally grateful to them.

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3. praptakSep 2011
   I was lucky enough to get an equivalent piece of advice from "Object Oriented Programming" by Peter Coad & Jill Nicola ( http://amzn.com/013032616X ) which was the main textbook for an OO course during my CS studies. There are good examples there that illustrate this and many other useful rules (of thumb) of OO modeling.
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4. meadhikariDec 2010
   Object Oriented Programming by Timothy Budd. Its the starting book that I got and is proving very helpful to me.
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5. JachDec 2020
   Regarding 4, I'd suggest reading Object-Oriented Programming: The CLOS Perspective first. It also has a great cover (same illustrator as AMOP), though it's not evident from Amazon's page last time I checked. This book is really a big collection of papers from several authors. It covers the topics of Lisp's OOP system and some of its history, its unique features (especially some comparison chapters with C++, Smalltalk, Eiffel), its meta-object protocol (and why you'd want it), some production reports from the field on its use in helping application development, and some implementation details to ward off "surely this is sooo much slower than a plain old function call?"
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