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- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Path: sparky!uunet!world!rjk
- From: rjk@world.std.com (robert j kolker)
- Subject: What mathematics underlies OOP
- Message-ID: <Bw0B3w.2x8@world.std.com>
- Summary: Mathematical theory or model underlying object oriented programming
- Keywords: OOP,Mathematics
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 11:40:43 GMT
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- THe mathematics underlying relational databases is the algebra of n-adic
- relations with some restriction on complementation.
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- The mathatematics underlying PROLOG and other types of rules based
- programming is first order predicate calculus usually restricted to Horn
- Clauses.
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- The mathematics underlying applicative function languages is Lambda Calculus.
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- Now, what is the mathematics underlying object oriented programming?
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- Your opinions, please.
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