(1989) Object-Oriented Programming : Dan Ingalls

Even in our days, where object-oriented programming is widely accepted, it is still not very well understood by most people. Source: https://archive.org/details/DanIngal1989 Here's a summary of the lecture, given by Dan Ingalls (who worked in Alan Kay's Smalltalk group): - State-of-the-art: Procedures and data structures - Architecture problems faced by structured programming. - Message system of Smalltalk for invoking methods of an object. - Inheritance and polymorphism - Automatic storage management (garbage collector). - Examples, how applying OO makes development easier (GUI, compiler, debugger). - Exception Handling At the end, Dan Ingalls is interviewed by David Ungar (Assistant Professor, Stanford, Computer Systems Lab).