OOP and Philosophy
Steve Klabnik • Kansas City, MO • Talk

Date: April 05, 2013
Published: April 28, 2013
Announced: December 17, 2012

Actions are driven by ideas, and ideas are driven by philosophy. For a deep understanding of our actions, we have to go the whole way back to the philosophy that motivates them. So what's the philosophical basis for Object Oriented Programming? In this talk, [the speaker] will discuss Plato's theory of forms, its relationship to Object Oriented Programming, and its current relevance (or irrelevance) to modern philosophy.

Ruby Midwest 2013