Niklaus wirth

=== Sales trick ===
https://archive.is/KMIOs
"....Nevertheless, the careful observer may wonder, where the core of the new paradigm would hide, what was the essential difference to the traditional view of programming. After all, the old cornerstones of procedural programming reappear, albeit embedded in a new terminology: Objects are records, classes are types, methods are procedures, and sending a method is equivalent to calling a procedure. True, records now consist of data fields and, in addition, methods; and true, the feature called inheritance allows the construction of heterogeneous data structures, useful also without object-orientation. Was this change of terminology expressing an essential paradigm shift, or was it a vehicle for gaining attention, a “sales trick”? ..."
=== wirth ===
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3407661 Niklaus Wirth Through the Looking Glass. Critiques oop. 
https://inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/Articles/GoodIdeas_origFig.pdf
http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1773 Discussion on Wirth's paper.
https://web.archive.org/web/20060217044653/http://research.microsoft.com/~lampson/33-Hints/WebPage.html
=== links ===
Rob Pike
Category:Oop