CS 691J - Spring '96

Topics in Object-Oriented Technology

Web resources

Miscellaneous Web pages

• Index to Object-Oriented Information Sources
• Programming Language Research Resources
• Object Currents
• Design Patterns
• Interesting (to me, Enrico, at least!) OO languages:
  • Eiffel, a class-based language with multiple inheritance and genericity aimed at the systematic construction of quality software;
  • Simula, the first object-oriented language providing objects, classes, inheritance, polymorphism, dynamic binding and static typing back in 1967;
  • Smalltalk, the language that popularized object-oriented programming;
  • Sather, a simple Eiffel offspring with separate subtyping and inheritance lattices;
  • Modula-3, an object-oriented system programming language;
  • C++, everyone's favorite language to love and hate;
  • Objective-C, a strange mix of C and Smalltalk;
  • Java, the flavor of the day - what Objective-C and C++ could have been 10 years ago;
  • CLOS, Common Lisp Object System;
  • Obliq, a lexically-scoped untyped interpreted language that supports distributed object-oriented computation;
  • Python, an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language;
  • Ada, the well-known ISO language, now with an OO version (Ada95);
  • Self, a prototype-based language with uniform access to state and behavior;
  • Cecil, a prototype-based language that combines multi-methods with a classless object model, object-based encapsulation, and optional static type checking;
  • Dylan the (abandoned by) Apple dynamic language;
  • Beta, an attempt to mix object-oriented, functional, and procedural programming practices;
  • Agora, a prototype-based language featuring a generalised mixin approach to inheritance.
  • Oz, a higher-order object-oriented concurrent constraint programming language.
  • Emerald, a distributed object-oriented programming language and system providing both process and object mobility on a network of workstations.

Miscellaneous Newsgroups

• comp.object
• comp.lang.ada
• comp.lang.beta
• comp.lang.c++
• comp.lang.clos
• comp.lang.dylan
• comp.lang.eiffel
• comp.lang.java
• comp.lang.modula3
• comp.lang.oberon
• comp.lang.objective-c
• comp.lang.python
• comp.lang.sather
• comp.lang.smalltalk
• comp.databases.object
• comp.object.logic