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- From: herbst@seq.uncwil.edu (R.T. Herbst)
- Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
- Subject: What is an OBJECT?
- Keywords: OOP software-eng
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.151427.1371@seq.uncwil.edu>
- Date: 10 Jan 93 15:14:27 GMT
- Article-I.D.: seq.1993Jan10.151427.1371
- Organization: Univ. of North Carolina @ Wilmington
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- What is an "OBJECT"?
- In the interest of stirring some discussion on the subject of OO*,
- I offer the following.
- 1. I cannot tell you what an object is but I know one when I see one.
- 2. From Essays on Object-Oriented Software Engineering by Edward V.
- Berard. Prentice Hall.
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- "An object is some private memory with some associated functions or
- an object is like a struct"
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- "... Objects correspond to real world entities, object are those things
- tha populate the universe around us"
- 3. Sentences can contain subjects, verbs, and objects.
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- Berards work is quite interesting and provides a coherent treatment
- of a vital subject which has an object.
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