Re: OOP in Mathematica
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- Subject: [mg28900] Re: OOP in Mathematica
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 01:13:03 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hi, it will *not* help you ! > Hi everybody... > I have been toying with OOP(Objected-Oriented Programming) & Mathematica for > quite some time now and I am finaly in the process of implementing an OOP > package for Mathematica. I know that the main reference in this area has > been Maeder's "Classes" package for some time now, but I always felt it left > much to be desired. > So, if you used Maeder's package and/or are interested in the posibility of > working with Objects in Mathematica I would appreciate your opinion on the > following: > a) If you did use Maeder's package, what do you think of it? An example for teaching that show OOP is a stupid concept, if you have a better one. > b) What features would YOU like to see in such a package? Clean functional/logic programming. Complete removal of all the sick object orientation. > c) Anything else you can think of, that might interest/help me. It is a shame to use such a wonderful well desinged language like Mathematica's language to do OOP. > Replies to my personal email are welcome. > Orestis Vantzos atelesforos at hotmail.com Regards Jens