Article about "The Post-OOP Paradigm"
Jeffrey T. Read
bitwize at snet.net
Fri Mar 14 06:38:07 UTC 2003
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 08:08:36AM -0500, Gary Fisher wrote:
>
> The article's title is perhaps a bit unfortunate; the "Post-OOP Paradigm,"
> according to the article, "do[es] not aim to supplant object-oriented
> programming [but to] refine or improve or reinvigorate it." Post-OOP, in
> the author's sense, appears to mean "now that OOP is recognized as the
> baseline," not "in place of" but "built upon."
>
It's a buzzword, much like "postmodernism". Once X becomes popular amongst
the hoi polloi, X's early adopters are eager to become "post-X", to
reassert their avant-garde-ness.
--
Jeff Read <bitwize at snet.net>
If God wrote in LISP code, then Jesus wrote in
Smalltalk, hence, water become: wine.
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