Chapter 1
Thinking Object-Oriented
Although the fundamental features of what we now call object-oriented programming were invented in the 1960s, object-oriented languages really caught the attention of the computing public-at-large in the 1980s. Two seminal events were the publication of a widely read issue of Byte (August 1981) that described the programming language Smalltalk, and the first international conference on object-oriented programming languages and applications, held in Portland, Oregon in 1986.
Now, almost 20 years later, the situation noted in the first edition of this book (1991) still exists.
Object-oriented programming (OOP) has become exceedingly popular in the past few years. Software producers rush to release object-oriented ...
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