A survey of representations employed in objectorientated programming

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Romero, Pablo, Cox, Richard, du Boulay, Benedict and Lutz, Rudi (2003) A survey of representations employed in object-orientated programming. Journal of Visual Languages and Programming, 14 (5). pp. 387-419. ISSN 1045-926X

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