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Robinson, Hugh and Sharp, Helen
(2009).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01449290701494548
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.
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- Item ORO ID
- 12949
- Item Type
- Journal Item
- ISSN
- 1362-3001
- Keywords
- community; OOPSLA; Smalltalk; social history
- Academic Unit or School
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Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) > Computing and Communications
Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) - Research Group
- Centre for Research in Computing (CRC)
- Copyright Holders
- © 2009 Taylor & Francis
- Depositing User
- Helen Sharp