What are OOP's Jargons and Complexities?

[Matthias Buelow]

Andrea Griffini wrote:

>>With a few relaxations and extensions, you can get a surprisingly useful
>>language out of the rigid Pascal, as evidenced by Turbo Pascal, one of
>>the most popular (and practical) programming languages in the late 80ies
>>/ start of the 90ies.
> 
> It was not a language. It was a product in the hand of a single
> company. The difference is that a product can die at the snaps
> of a marketroid, no matter how nice or how diffuse it is.

Of course it is a language, just not a standardized one (if you include
Borland's extensions that make it practical).  But does that matter?
With the exception of Scheme, none of the languages that are the object
of discussion of the newsgroups this thread is being posted to, are
standardized.  Yet they are all quite popular.

And btw., I haven't used Pascal in a dozen years but my latest info is
that Turbo Pascal still lives in the form of "Delphi" for the Windows
platform.  Surely not "dead" as I understand it.

mkb.