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Re:Object-oriented Programming with ANSI-C (1993) [pdf] by DarkNova6 on Thursday June 22, 2023 @03:29AM (#36429045)
I think inheritance is the most convenient thing which came out of OOP, but interfaces are the most valuable one.

At least for business applications, you want to keep your behaviour and state separate. And people following OOP dogmatically will (ab)use encapsulation for use-cases where your data should be transparent.

Contrast this to interfaces, which are essentially composable specifications on code-level (and I absolutely love that Java uses interfaces to describe anonymous classes due to the power it gives you for documentation and specification).

Re:Object-oriented Programming with ANSI-C (1993) [pdf] by rramadass on Thursday June 22, 2023 @09:27AM (#36431845)
You might find Program Development in Java: Abstraction, Specification, and Object-Oriented Design by Barbara Liskov with John Guttag interesting.
Re:Object-oriented Programming with ANSI-C (1993) [pdf] by DarkNova6 on Thursday June 22, 2023 @11:59AM (#36434203)
I am always a sucker for good book recommendations. Thank you!
Re:Object-oriented Programming with ANSI-C (1993) [pdf] by rramadass on Thursday June 22, 2023 @12:57PM (#36435191)
The book is by the great Barbara Liskov herself (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Liskov) the pioneer of Abstract Data Types, Subtyping, OOD etc. It is basically a rewrite of their classic text Abstraction and Specification in Program Development (1986) with the example language now being Java. It is not a popular cookbook but a fundamental programming concepts book which needs serious study. I highly recommend it.