On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 7:30 AM, Rustom Mody
Ive been collecting material regarding (confusions around) OO. Its far from complete but the references may be useful, eg - the Rees list on the different things that OO means to different people - the fundamental philosophical differences between commitment to declarativeness and imperativeness -- in philosophical language rationalism and empiricism
As I said, its still in the early stage of bits and pieces being collected... http://blog.languager.org/2012/07/we-dont-need-no-ooooo-orientation-2.html
* If so, where should I start? There are plenty of "functional programming
for OO programmers" but I have never seen "OO programming for functional programmers".
In the C++ world Stepanov is almost on par with Stroupstrup. His STL has transformed C++ practices more than anything else Good to read his views on OOP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Stepanov#Criticism_of_OOP
Just realized that the resultant anti-OOP direction of my earlier mail is stronger than is good for a young computer scientist. In a field like ours its as important to be able to wear a technical/mathematical hat as a social or political one. And when the latter, its good to be able to participate in a discussion in which inheritance, UML etc etc figures.