4.4. Design Patterns
So, what exactly qualifies a language as being object–oriented (OO)? Some people believe that any language that has objects that encapsulate data and methods can be considered OO. Others would also include polymorphism via inheritance and access modifiers into the definition. The purists would probably list dozens of pages of things they think an OO language must support, such as exceptions, method overloading, reflection, strict typing, and more. You can bet that none of these people would ever agree with each other because of the diversity of OOP languages, each of them good for certain tasks and not quite as good for others.
However, what most people would agree with is that developing OO software is not only about the ...
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