On the Origins of Objects by Means of Careful Selection

TL;DR

This paper presents a taxonomy of objects for the EO programming language, aiming to aid programmers and guide object-oriented language design through principles like non-redundancy and simplicity.

Contribution

It introduces a structured taxonomy of objects tailored for EO, serving as a navigation tool and design guideline for object-oriented programming.

Findings

Provides a clear taxonomy for EO objects

Enhances understanding of object organization in EO

Serves as a design guideline for other languages

Abstract

We introduce a taxonomy of objects for EO programming language. This taxonomy is designed with a few principles in mind: non-redundancy, simplicity, and so on. The taxonomy is supposed to be used as a navigation map by EO programmers. It may also be helpful as a guideline for designers of other object-oriented languages or libraries for them.