rob@xios.XIOS.UUCP (Robert Williams) (01/06/89)
The IEEE Computer Society, Ottawa Section, presents
"Why Object-Oriented Extensions to C are Doomed to Fail"
on Tuesday, January 17, 1989
Speaker: Jim McGugan, Computer Based Information Systems.
Time: 7:30 pm bar opens
8:00 pm talk begins
Location: The President's Room, 2nd floor, Unicenter Building,
Carleton University,
Ottawa, Ontario.
Contact: Philip Nowe, Phone 596-9911.
Everyone is invited, no reservations are required!
Summary:
Object-oriented programming emphasizes code reuse, abstraction,
encapsulation, instantiation, polymorphism, and the importance of
programming environments. It has been a major influence on
computer language design in the 80s. Many practicing programmers
are now being infected by the trend and are beginning to at least
contemplate doing their next project in a object oriented
programming system (OOPS).
Commercially available OOPSs tend to fall into one of two
categories: the purists, like Smalltalk, and the hybrids, like
C++, Objective C, and Object Pascal. The hybrids attempt to
inject a greater or lesser degree of object-orientedness into the
language you've always known and loved.
The speaker has been developing object-oriented systems and
applications for the past two and one-half years. During this
period he has formed some decided opinions on the pure versus
hybrid controversy. He will attempt to convince you that the
hybrid approach does not work. Object-oriented and conventional
styles of programming do not mix well together. The talk's
thesis will be supported by numerous practical examples.
The Speaker:
Jim McGugan is currently developing products in Smalltalk for
the real-time and embedded systems market at Computer Based
Information Systems. Previously he was Manager, CAD/CAM
Integration Technology at BNR where he was co-developer of EpiC,
an object-oriented programming system, and Nu, an object-oriented
database interface for CAD applications.
NOTE: Are you interested in forming a special interest group on
object-oriented programming? For some time now, an informal
group representing OOPS users at some of the companies in town
have been getting together to exchange views. We would like to
use the occasion of this talk to discuss formalizing the group.
A brief organizing meeting will be held after the talk.
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