Robinson, Hugh and Sharp, Helen
(2009).
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier) Link: | http://doi.org/10.1080/01449290701494548 |
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Abstract
Based on an analysis of contemporaneous materials, we present a history of object-oriented technology from the late 1970s, when object orientation was little-known, until the early 1990s, when object-oriented technology was widely accepted across computer science. We identify three phases of emergence: interpretative flexibility; community and dissemination; and pervasiveness. We describe the role of various communities, constituencies, fora and programming languages, and show how the intellectual history of an idea underpinning a technology differs from that technology’s path of adoption.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Copyright Holders: | 2009 Taylor & Francis |
| ISSN: | 1362-3001 |
| Keywords: | community; OOPSLA; Smalltalk; social history |
| Academic Unit/Department: | Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) > Computing and Communications |
| Interdisciplinary Research Centre: | Centre for Research in Computing (CRC) |
| Item ID: | 12949 |
| Depositing User: | Helen Sharp |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Jan 2009 03:41 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2016 13:21 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/12949 |
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