A Survey of Object-Oriented Programming Languages

Authors

  • M. Surya  Computer Science and engineering, Sri Krishna College of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India
  • S. Padmavathi  Assistant Professor, Computer Science and engineering, Sri Krishna College of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India

Keywords:

OOPL, C++, C#

Abstract

Object oriented programming has become a very important programming CONCEPT of our times.The time it was brought into existence by Simula. It directly support the object notions of classes, inheritance, information hiding, and dynamic binding. There is a variety of implementations for each of these concepts, and there is no general agreement as to how a particular concept must be interpreted. This survey takes a detailed look at the concepts which are fundamental to object-orientation, namely inheritance and polymorphism. Different aspects of inheritance and polymorphism are implemented in various popular Object oriented program language. We conclude that there is still lot of work to be done to reach a common ground for these to achieve features of OOPs. This survey presents a comparison of Java, C++, C# , Eiffel, Smalltalk, Ruby and Python in terms of their inheritance and polymorphism implementations. The paper also presents a compilation of the observations made by several surveys [1].

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2019-04-30

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Volume 5, Issue 2, March-April-2019

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M. Surya, S. Padmavathi, " A Survey of Object-Oriented Programming Languages, IInternational Journal of Scientific Research in Computer Science, Engineering and Information Technology(IJSRCSEIT), ISSN : 2456-3307, Volume 5, Issue 2, pp.187-197, March-April-2019.