From: Christopher C. Stacy
Subject: Lisp cited as OO in a .NET article
Date:
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Lisp was mentioned today in "Developer .NET UPDATE", an online
newsletter from the Windows & .NET Magazine Network.
The "DEVELOPER .NET PERSPECTIVES" column was contributed
by Bill Sheldon <·····@interknowlogy.com> and titled
"OBJECT-BASED VS. OBJECT-ORIENTED ENVIRONMENTS".
Talking about how the Microsoft .NET Framework is a paradigm shift
and explaining why Visual Basic .NET isn't backward-compatible with
Visual Basic (VB) 6.0, Bill writes:
As an object-based environment, VB 6.0 is limited in access to
concepts such as inheritance, overloading, and overriding.
Just like C++, Lisp, Smalltalk, and other OO languages,
Visual Basic .NET (and every .NET language)
takes full advantage of OO concepts.
He goes on to discuss what OO is and explain the usual terms (polymorphism,
inheritance, overloading, overriding). He sounds like a C++ programmer,
because he describes things in terms of classes and member functions.
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On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 02:38:29 GMT, ······@dtpq.com (Christopher C. Stacy)
wrote:
> The "DEVELOPER .NET PERSPECTIVES" column was contributed
> by Bill Sheldon <·····@interknowlogy.com> and titled
> "OBJECT-BASED VS. OBJECT-ORIENTED ENVIRONMENTS".
>
> Talking about how the Microsoft .NET Framework is a paradigm shift
> and explaining why Visual Basic .NET isn't backward-compatible with
> Visual Basic (VB) 6.0, Bill writes:
>
> As an object-based environment, VB 6.0 is limited in access to
> concepts such as inheritance, overloading, and overriding.
> Just like C++, Lisp, Smalltalk, and other OO languages,
[...]
> inheritance, overloading, overriding). He sounds like a C++ programmer,
He actually sounds like a marketing guy :)
Paolo
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