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An Object-Oriented World

In OOP paradigm, from the programmers point of view, an object-oriented language must support three very important explicit characteristics. We use these concepts extensively to model the real-world problems when we are trying to solve with our object-oriented programs. These three concepts are:

The implicit characteristic is abstraction. We use it to specify new abstract data types, or ADT for short.



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Olexiy Ye. Tykhomyrov 2001-12-16