This chapter is about object-oriented
programming languages.
It presents an overview of existing
languages and discusses their heritage from
Simula.
Further, it contains a detailed comparison
of the three major object-oriented languages;
Smalltalk, Eiffel, C++ and Java.
It discusses the design dimensions of object-oriented
languages and proposes orthogonal dimensions of design,
following As subjects for a paper, you may think of
where X may range over Turbo Pascal,
Nexpert Object, or any language that claims
to be object-oriented.
Features to pay attention to include
protection mechanisms and inheritance.
As practical assignments you may think of
where X may be any non object-oriented
language.
An interesting project would be to develop
an object-oriented extension of yacc.
Hints
Project assignments
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