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OOP Is Much Better in Theory Than in Practice

An critique of OOP. The article is about OOP as a SE/design approach and doesn't directly attack the issue from a PL angle, but it might still interest LtU readers.

From a PL point of view, I would have chnaged the title to: OOP Is Much Better in Theory Than in Practice, (And the Theory Isn't too Good anyway).

Principles of Program Analysis

To coincide with the reprinting of Principles of Program Analysis by Flemming Nielson, Hanne Riis Nielson and Chris Hankin the authors launched a new web page containing lecture slides and other supplementary material.

The lecture slides cover things like data flow analysis, control flow analysis and abstract interpretation.