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  3. May 2003

RE: what is object oriented programming

>> There is a style of programming that programmers 
>> can employ where data is encapsulated in an "object" 
>> and then procs which are "oriented" toward the
>> data are called to act on the data.  An RPG programmer 
>> can employ that style of programming to a degree.  
>
>What many people describe as "OO Programming" in ILE 
>is often simply just good programming practice 
>(as someone else here suggested). Some aspects of that 
>good programming practice are more properly 
>called "modular programming".

In my day I have come across many people who believe they are doing modular
programming by including IFEQ...ENDIF.  Modular programming is not a coding
issue, it is a thinking issue.  The same is the case with OO.  It is a way
to think about coding.
  --buck

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