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Sum2002 Midterm Review: Get the story right!
Ideas? Problems at Midterm Review - Summer 2002
a. Most people claim that Alan Kay invented object-oriented programming with Smalltalk. Some people claim that Bjarne Stroustrup did, with C++. But a few sticklers say that both of them were influenced by the real first object-oriented programming language. What language would that be, and how did it influence both of these pioneers?
simula. simula was created with the intent of modeling events and
objects in the real world. several concepts from that language,
including encapsulation and inhieritance (main and prefix layer,
respectively) and the notion of objects (classes).
both these concepts are central to c++ and smalltalk, and any other
object-oriented language.
taken from http://java.sun.com/people/jag/SimulaHistory.html
b. Object-oriented programming, overlapping windows, pop-up menus, and even much of multimedia computing today was invented by a group at Xerox PARC-whose goal was not to build the world?s first object-oriented programming language or any of the rest of that. Rather, these accomplishments were stepstones toward the bigger goal? which was?
i'm not too sure what this question is attempting to ask. i suppose
it's asking what the uber-goal of the Xerox PARC group was. this i
don't recall. can questions on the midterm be less ambiguous?
- alan fay (emptyset@cc.gatech.edu)
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