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Concept-oriented programming: from classes to concepts and from inheritance to inclusion (1501.00720v1)
Published 4 Jan 2015 in cs.PL
Abstract: For the past several decades, programmers have been modeling things in the world with trees using hierarchies of classes and object-oriented programming (OOP) languages. In this paper, we describe a novel approach to programming, called concept-oriented programming (COP), which generalizes classes and inheritance by introducing concepts and inclusion, respectively.