Abstract
This paper proposes an object-oriented programming language framework that deliberately separates mechanism from policy. Mechanisms such as slot access and message passing are designed to have a natural semantics and to be efficient. Conventional and controversial concepts such as class, inheritance, and method combination, on the other hand, are classified as policy, and are left open to the user by providing so-called hook mechanisms. TAO is a language conforming to this framework and has only a few more than twenty primitives for object-oriented programming. This paper also gives examples illustrating how conventional concepts of object-oriented programming can be implemented on top of these primitives.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Object Technologies for Advanced Software - 1st JSSST International Symposium, Proceedings |
| Publisher | Springer Verlag |
| Pages | 61-76 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Volume | 742 LNCS |
| ISBN (Print) | 9783540573425 |
| Publication status | Published - 1993 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | 1st International Symposium on Object Technologies for Advanced Software, ISOTAS 1993 - Kanazawa, Japan Duration: 1993 Nov 4 → 1993 Nov 6 |
Publication series
| Name | Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) |
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| Volume | 742 LNCS |
| ISSN (Print) | 0302-9743 |
| ISSN (Electronic) | 1611-3349 |
Other
| Other | 1st International Symposium on Object Technologies for Advanced Software, ISOTAS 1993 |
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| Country | Japan |
| City | Kanazawa |
| Period | 93/11/4 → 93/11/6 |
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ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Theoretical Computer Science
- Computer Science(all)
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Yamazaki, K., Amagai, Y., Yoshida, M., & Takeuchi, I. (1993). TAO: An object orientation kernel. In Object Technologies for Advanced Software - 1st JSSST International Symposium, Proceedings (Vol. 742 LNCS, pp. 61-76). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 742 LNCS). Springer Verlag.