[Tutor] COP vs OOP (was: Objects, persistence & getting)

[Max Noel]

On Jan 17, 2005, at 22:41, Bernard Lebel wrote:

> Alan Gauld wrote:
>  In fact
>> I usually refer to Java as a Class Oriented Programming
>> rather than Object Oriented.
>
>
> If you allow me a question....
>
> What is the fundamental difference between the two? To me this is not 
> clear. I thought that a class was basically a programming object with 
> properties and methods, but I never thought a class could not be an 
> object.

	if you're only using static (class) methods, then your class 
can't/needn't be instanciated, and then is nothing more than the 
equivalent of a Python module. I think that's what Alan means by 
class-oriented programming.

	However, all the Java programming I've done so far has been true OOP 
(hopefully; it was for a Uni module called Object-Oriented Software 
Engineering), and I fail to see what in its design does not encourage 
this practice.

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