On Fri, May 15, 2020, 2:35 PM Doug McIlroy <doug@cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:

> > I feel the essence of object-oriented computing
> > is not operator overloading but the representation of behavior.
>
> Rob is right. Overloading is a universal characteristic
> of OO programming, but not the essence.
>

I've viewed the essence as everything is an object and I can send messages
to objects. From there, many different styles flow as different efforts
leveraged different means and methods to purport to achieve that goal.

Warner

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