In article <3c586bd2@news.povray.org>, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> 
wrote:

>   Modular languages (eg. Modula 2) can have classes, member variables,
> member functions, public and private parts, etc, but if they don't support
> inheritance and dynamic binding, they are not OO.

But Jan's example does use inheritance (the setCenter() and 
setMaterial() methods) and wasn't complex enough to show dynamic 
binding...


>   OO just happens to have been the hype the last 10-20 years and people call
> almost anything "object-oriented". There was a joke in some OO forums that
> if you want to sell your cat, you shouldn't praise how nice and clean etc
> the cat is, but you should say that the cat is object-oriented.

I've got some free kittens, they all demonstrate inheritance pretty 
obviously and are very dynamic...

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