On Jan 17, 2005, at 22:41, Bernard Lebel wrote:
Alan Gauld wrote: In factI 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 and methods, but I never thought a class could not be an object.
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.
However, all the Java programming I've done so far has been true OOP (hopefully; it was for a Uni module called Object-Oriented Software Engineering), and I fail to see what in its design does not encourage this practice.
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