Re: [Tutor] COP vs OOP

2005-01-17 Thread Max Noel
On Jan 17, 2005, at 23:07, Bernard Lebel wrote: Okay... so if I follow you, a class that has methods not part of itself, it's not a static class...? So should I understand that a class that gets inherited methods can be considered OOP? Not exactly. Basically, object-oriented programming is just

Re: [Tutor] COP vs OOP

2005-01-17 Thread Bernard Lebel
Max Noel wrote: if you're only using static (class) methods, then your class can't/needn't be instanciated, and then is nothing more than the equivalent of a Python module. I think that's what Alan means by class-oriented programming. Okay... so if I follow you, a class that has methods not p

Re: [Tutor] COP vs OOP (was: Objects, persistence & getting)

2005-01-17 Thread Max Noel
On Jan 17, 2005, at 22:41, Bernard Lebel wrote: Alan Gauld wrote: In fact I usually refer to Java as a Class Oriented Programming rather than Object Oriented. If you allow me a question What is the fundamental difference between the two? To me this is not clear. I thought that a class was ba

Re: [Tutor] COP vs OOP (was: Objects, persistence & getting)

2005-01-17 Thread Bernard Lebel
Alan Gauld wrote: In fact I usually refer to Java as a Class Oriented Programming rather than Object Oriented. If you allow me a question What is the fundamental difference between the two? To me this is not clear. I thought that a class was basically a programming object with properties an