3.9. Three Distinguishing Features of an Object-Oriented Programming Language
In order to be considered truly object oriented, a programming language must provide support for three key mechanisms:
(Programmer creation of) User-defined types
Inheritance
Polymorphism
You've just learned about the first of these mechanisms, and we'll discuss the other two in chapters to follow.
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