Description: From OOP with simula to design patterns with BETA. Links related to object oriented programming and important litterature on object oriented programming and design.
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Kjell Gunnar Bleivik Januar 13 2016.
Status: will be updated with additional information.
Code reuse is fundamental in OOP. There are some C++ examples of OOP on our old forum worth studying. DRY, don't repeat yourself is automatically implemented in a good OOP design. OOP started with Simula in Norway in the 1960's since the formal programming concept of objects was introduced in Simula 67. According to the first Wikipedia article some claimed that it started earlier, at M.I.T. in the late 1950s. That is not the main topic of this short article and has been extensively discussed elsewhere. S