Concept-Oriented Programming - Classes and Inheritance Revisited

Alexandr Savinov

2012

Abstract

The main goal of concept-oriented programming (COP) is describing how objects are represented and accessed. References (object locations) in COP are made first-class elements responsible for many important functions which are difficult to model via objects. COP rethinks and generalizes such primary notions of object-orientation as class and inheritance by introducing a novel construct, concept, and a new relation, inclusion. They make it possible to describe many mechanisms and patterns of thoughts currently belonging to different programming paradigms: modeling object hierarchies (prototype-based programming), precedence of parent methods over child methods (inner methods in Beta), modularizing cross-cutting concerns (aspect-oriented programming), value-orientation (functional programming).

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Savinov A. (2012). Concept-Oriented Programming - Classes and Inheritance Revisited . In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Paradigm Trends - Volume 1: ICSOFT, ISBN 978-989-8565-19-8, pages 381-387. DOI: 10.5220/0004082303810387


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@conference{icsoft12,
author={Alexandr Savinov},
title={Concept-Oriented Programming - Classes and Inheritance Revisited},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Paradigm Trends - Volume 1: ICSOFT,},
year={2012},
pages={381-387},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004082303810387},
isbn={978-989-8565-19-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Paradigm Trends - Volume 1: ICSOFT,
TI - Concept-Oriented Programming - Classes and Inheritance Revisited
SN - 978-989-8565-19-8
AU - Savinov A.
PY - 2012
SP - 381
EP - 387
DO - 10.5220/0004082303810387