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How are modules and namespaces OOP?

• jgwil2 6y ago
  To me OOP is about separation of concerns, abstract data types, information hiding. Modules/namespaces support decomposition the same way that objects do, and historically they became popular because of and in tandem with object-oriented languages. So it's true as others have pointed out that they can and do exist in other paradigms; I would argue that is evidence of the influence of OOP and the fact that its best ideas have been incorporated all over the place.
  • bccdee 6y ago
    Those are just good programming principles in general though. Abstract data types, information-hiding, and separation-of-concerns were being done in C well before OOP was a thing. Granted, the information-hiding wasn't as sophisticated as it got once OOP was introduced, but I don't think it makes sense to attribute information-hiding to OOP as a result, especially since newer programming language have used visibility attributes in the absence of OOP classes.
  • abecedarius 6y ago
    Some would say abstract data types are not OOP -- OOP is defined by how it's different from ADTs: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~wcook/Drafts/2009/essay.pdf https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~wcook/Drafts/2009/essay.pdf