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   1 * Non-conventional OOP Paradigm
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   3 A reflection on what Object Orientation is at its core as well as an
   4 exploration what OOP could mean apart from the Java/C++/.. way of
   5 looking at things.
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   7 We will look at CLOS and discover how polymorphism doesn't need to
   8 be bound to some special self/this parameter and see how method
   9 specialization often does not want to just overwrite the baseclass
  10 implementation.
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  12 We will take a look at Erlang -- a language that does not really claim
  13 to be object-oriented at all -- and discover astonishing similarities
  14 between erlang processes and objects where loose coupling is taken
  15 seriously.
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  17 We will review Smalltalk, the language deepply connected with the
  18 intial concept of OOP and long forgotten.