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Alan Kay is generally credited with coming up with the term "object-oriented", so for better or for worse, many people defer to his definition and his embodimen
by KMag 3y ago
Alan Kay is generally credited with coming up with the term "object-oriented", so for better or for worse, many people defer to his definition and his embodiment of ideas when looking for a strict definition of the term.
- Rochus 3y ago> many people defer to his definition and his embodiment of ideas when looking for a strict definition of the term. I consider the definition e.g. used by IEEE as sufficiently strict, see e.g. https://ethw.org/Milestones:Object-Oriented_Programming,_1961-1967 https://ethw.org/Milestones:Object-Oriented_Programming,_196..., but - as you say - it's not the defintion used by Kay.
- moomin 3y agoHonestly, though, that’s like crediting William Burroughs with Blade Runner.