Readings for CSU 370 (Clinger)

• Richard P Gabriel: Objects Have Failed
• Guy L Steele Jr: Objects Have Not Failed
• One way to translate an algebraic specification into Java
• Read in textbook:
  • Chapter 1, pages 1-11 (through "Polymorphism")
  • Chapter 13, pages 273-285 (through "Abstract Class")
  • Chapter 17, pages 384-385 (STATIC MEMBERS)
• Read in textbook:
  • Chapter 2
  • Chapter 3
  • Chapter 4
  • Chapter 5

Supplemental readings

• Richard P Gabriel's discursive notes for the OOPSLA '92 debate on whether objects have failed.
• François-René Rideau's hilarious but accurate characterization of the Actor paradigm.
• Clinger's review of freshman-level Java, part 1
• Clinger's review of freshman-level Java, part 2

Last updated 1 December 2004.