Object-oriented programming

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1. andrekandreFeb 2026

     > Brad Cox's Object-Oriented Programming: An Evolutionary Approach
   

   i liked this one and got some good insights from it, though it was so old it was hard to get through...

   the snake-oil aspect though, i think is true to a large extent:

   oop became a huge hype and a marketing term, and things like c++ and java oop are so far away from the original ideas of the original 'oop' of smalltalk and we have been suffering from really bad/low quality abstractions (javas infamous FactoryFactory pattern, subclass everything etc) for a long time...

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2. 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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3. 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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4. bborehamJan 2019
   Brad Cox described this in “Object-oriented Programming”, a book I first read in 1989. Building applications. simply by plugging together off-the-shelf components remains a beautiful vision, and it is almost entirely unrealised 30 years on.
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5. protomythJun 2015
   Brad Cox's two books are worth reading:

   "Object-Oriented Programming: An Evolutionary Approach" ISBN-10: 0201548348 ISBN-13: 978-0201548341

   "Superdistribution: Objects as Property on the Electronic Frontier" ISBN-10: 0201502089 ISBN-13: 978-0201502084

   even after all these years, they still give some interesting insights

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6. protomythDec 2014
   Not in 2014, but I think they are worth reading:

   Brad Cox: Superdistribution: Objects as Property on the Electronic Frontier

   Brad Cox: Object-Oriented Programming: An Evolutionary Approach

   Jason Brennan: Why Not Capitalism?

   Leo Brodie: Thinking Forth

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