Object-oriented programming (OOP) has several topics of interest for Automatic Programming:

• Association of procedures with types.

• Organization of types in a hierarchy.

• Inheritance of procedures from higher types in the hierarchy.

• Generic procedures that can work for different types of data.

We will cover:

• Principles and terminology of OOP

• A simple CLOS-like OOP system implemented in Lisp

• Implementation of generic procedures

• Advantages and disadvantages of OOP

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