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TAO: An object orientation kernel

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This paper proposes an object-oriented programming language framework that deliberately separates mechanism from policy. Mechanisms such as slot access and message passing are designed to have a natural semantics and to be efficient. Conventional and controversial concepts such as class, inheritance, and method combination, on the other hand, are classified as policy, and are left open to the user by providing so-called hook mechanisms. TAO is a language conforming to this framework and has only a few more than twenty primitives for object-oriented programming. This paper also gives examples illustrating how conventional concepts of object-oriented programming can be implemented on top of these primitives.

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  1. Basic Research Laboratories, Human Interface Laboratories, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Midori-cho 3-9-11, Musashino-shi, 180, Tokyo, Japan

    Kenichi Yamazaki, Yoshiji Amagai, Masaharu Yoshida & Ikuo Takeuchi

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  1. Kenichi Yamazaki
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  2. Yoshiji Amagai
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Shojiro Nishio Akinori Yonezawa

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Yamazaki, K., Amagai, Y., Yoshida, M., Takeuchi, I. (1993). TAO: An object orientation kernel. In: Nishio, S., Yonezawa, A. (eds) Object Technologies for Advanced Software. ISOTAS 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 742. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-57342-9_66

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