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Bert Freudenberg bert at impara.de
Tue Apr 6 12:07:22 UTC 2004


Am 06.04.2004 um 07:13 schrieb Ian Piumarta:

> On 06 Apr 2004, at 05:50, Alan Grimes wrote:
>
>> This may be a bit late for me to ask but I see the varriable name 
>> "oop" used everywhere in the interp and ObjectMemory. My guess was 
>> that it meant "Object Oriented Program"... But what does it really 
>> mean?
>
> Originally, "OOZE Object Pointer".  The term stuck, but OOZE didn't, 
> so oop then became "Ordinary Object Pointer".

For a little more detailed explanation, see 
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?OopAcronym

- Bert -




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