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Turing Award Goes to Pioneers of Object-Oriented Programming

Posted by michael on from the shoulders-of-giants dept.

Jens_AAMC wrote in to point out that the 2001 Turing Award has been announced, going to Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard for their work in object-oriented programming.

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  1. Mark you calendars! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's not every day that a group acronymed as POOP shows up on the Slashdot front page!

  2. Object Oriented... by bje2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    In honor of them, here's some timely object oriented jokes (note: i did not come up with these)...

    "How many Object Oriented programmers does it take to change a lightbulb?"
    "None, they send it a message, and it changes itself."

    "How many C++ programmers does it take to change a light bulb?"
    "You're still thinking procedurally! A properly designed light bulb object would inherit a change method from a generic light bulb class!"

    "The nice thing about C++ is that only your friends can handle your private parts."

    "OK, I admit it: My girlfriend's just an object to me. Unfortunately, there is some information hiding, but thankfully, she's fairly encapsulated, nicely modular, and has a very well defined interface!

    "Have you heard about the object-oriented way to become wealthy?"
    "No..."
    "Inheritance."

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    1. Re:Object Oriented... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      "The nice thing about C++ is that only your friends can handle your private parts."

      #define private public

      Yes I know it's a joke, but....

  3. funny story... by bob@dB.org · · Score: 4, Funny
    Kristen Nygaard and Ole-Johan Dahl was the subjects of a great april fools joke almost two years ago. in a story in the norwegian media (like at http://www.digi.no/digi98.nsf/pub/dd20000401010000 dsk8022888533 , don't bother clicking if you don't read any scandinavian languages) it was reported that the norwegian suprem court had finaly decided that Kristen Nygaard and Ole-Johan Dahl should receive compansation for ther work in inventing OOP. The compancation was to be in the amount of NOK1.00 (about us$0.10) per 1000 objects instanciated runtime. for object utilizing inheritance, the compansation should be increased by 12.5% per generation.

    fantastic joke. managers in panicing, techies laughing.

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  4. Here's one I remember from Compuserve by ralphc · · Score: 3, Funny

    Smalltalk is a great language. It will even mow the lawn, wash the dishes and feed the kids. Unfortunately it will also wash the lawn, feed the dishes and mow the kids.