Just wondering, does anybody know of a Journal that publishes papers on programming paradigms? E.g., something that would have articles on functional programming, OOP, etc., I think that's something I'd like to read
I see a lot of blogs but I'm sort of looking for something more formal and academic
something that would go into the problems that some new programming style was meant to solve, and how it did it
I'd like to do some research that compares the goals/theory behind several different programming styles (OOP, functional, structured, etc.)
@jrh Something that you should be aware of: many of the new tools and techniques that are emerging in the existing language spaces are actually old ideas. Functional programming enhancements being added to languages like C# actually derive from McCarthy's Lambda Calculus in the 1950's.
hmm, that's a pity that there aren't many papers. I've learned a lot reading papers on algorithms, I was hoping I'd be able to see something in the format of a new OOP concept to solve <whatever problem> like I've seen for algorithms.
This feels a lot more like a Stack Overflow question than a SoftwareEngineering question to me. Are you asking how to implement this? Or for design guidance? — enderland5 secs ago
@jrh While OOP is quite useful, it's not all that remarkable from an academic perspective. At the end of the day, it's just a collection of code organizing principles.
If you're really interested in academic OOP, study Smalltalk.
I'm kind of interested to know what the original design decision behind OOP was, i.e., something that explains what brought about the idea of taking the first parameter into a function and making the function a member of the type of that parameter
I think I should probably try smalltalk, it might answer some questions, for whatever reason C# style guides/etc. don't quite give me a clear enough answer for what I'm looking for
Dot notation is just dereferencing a member of a class. It's pretty much baked into class design. But you see its implications in, for example, method chaining in C#.
Where this is returned from the function, allowing you to dereference again.
Sure. e.g., structs in C use it to access data. Though I'm kind of curious about at what point they made the leap from "here's a group of functions that operate on structs A and B", to "these functions are now grouped with A, and they take in B as an input".
All of the class ceremony in languages like Java serves mostly as scaffolding, documentation and encapsulation.
You can do the same thing in functional languages with much less (and arguably more expressive) code. But there are also far fewer programmers in the marketplace that will understand it.
You can find a Java programmer on every street corner. Lisp programmers, not so much.
I bought this book amzn.com/0201543303 but I was kind of disappointed that there wasn't more about the why of OOP; it makes sense since Smalltalk may have already made that case; though it was a pretty cool book that tells some interesting things about starting a new language.
Also, Object-Orientation in C++ is partly a response to the problem of scalability (in terms of writing code) in C. While you can certainly write large programs in C, C++ is specifically designed to facilitate such programs.
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