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OO programming may be older than you think. I was in my early twenties when I first encountered it. At first (for about a year) I even believed in it. So whether I'm right or wrong to dislike it, it's not simply because I'm old.

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Axel Schreiner's book _Object Orientated Programming with ANSI C_ was published in 1994 and OO easily predates that by a good few years in the mainstream.

Schreiner is the German translation of Kernighan's books and this one is a nice example of using a preprocessor for C, written in awk, to gradually add OO to C so you can understand all the nuts and bolts under the hood of a "native" OO language. English translation PDF available for download. http://www.cs.rit.edu/~ats/books/index.html http://www.cs.rit.edu/~ats/books/ooc.pdf

More than a few years. This was the book that got everyone interested in OOP:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0201113716

As the name suggests, the language it describes was developed in 1980.

I said "in the mainstream", not academia. I'm talking about when personnel departments heard of it and when marketing departments started labelling everything OO.

Symbolics was advertising their FLAVORS object oriented system in the mid-80s. And Symbolics was, literally, the first dot-com.

http://smbx.org/index.php/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18&Itemid=76

You're bringing up a pioneer in the commercial world of OO, I'm talking about suits using the term OO without knowing what the letters stood for.

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