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I'd say OOP 'won' because Java offered garbage collection and a C style syntax. The fact that it was also OOP was incidental.
by narwally 6y ago
I'd say OOP 'won' because Java offered garbage collection and a C style syntax. The fact that it was also OOP was incidental.
- euiq 6y agoRight—garbage collection makes most software engineering significantly easier.
- munificent 6y agoOOP first boomed with C++ before Java came around, and Java got GC from function languages. If GC was the distinguishing factor, OOP would have never gotten off the ground.
- pjmlp 6y agoHaving been there when it all took off, it always feels so wrong to read "C++ code written Java style", when it was C++ that actually created that style.