Climbing the smalltalk mountain

1 January 1990

journal article
Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in ACM SIGCHI Bulletin

Vol. 21 (3) , 76
https://doi.org/10.1145/379088.379101

Abstract

Part of the promise of object-oriented software technology - and much of the fascination with objected-orientedness -- stems from its psychological implications. Thinking in terms of objects sending and responding to messages is supposed to be more "natural" than thinking of various data structures being operated on by generic procedures. Programming by using or specializing existent objects and their methods is supposed to make code reuse accessible even to beginners.

Keywords

PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPLICATION
SMALLTALK MOUNTAIN
VARIOUS DATA STRUCTURE
GENERIC PROCEDURE
OBJECT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY
EXISTENT OBJECT
CODE REUSE
DATA STRUCTURE

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A Study of Thinking
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