There are so many definitions of OOP out there, varying between different books, documentation and articles.

What really defines OOP?

  • sirdorius@programming.dev
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    9 months ago

    Academically, you’re right. For practical reasons, you probably don’t care how Simula, E, Lisp and Smalltalk (languages mentioned in that 20 year old article) implement it. This seemed more like a beginner question so I think the Java definition is a good starting point.