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From: emb90619@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Eric M Berdahl)
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Subject: Re: Object Oriented C for the Mac
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Date: 25 Jul 89 21:22:56 GMT
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In article <227700016@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> jpd00964@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>Object oriented C can be one of two things.
>1> objective C, which is a preprocessor, therefore effectively run-of-the-mill
>C with some standard routines to do object oriented programming.
>2>  C++ which is an extension to c and therefore not normal C.

Not exactly, C++ is also a preprocesor, just different enough to be considered
a different language.  In fact, if you look at most any C++ implementation,
you will find a cfront "preprocessor" and a C compiler are the basic pieces
of the system.

>Object oriented programming is a method of storing routines in "objects" with 
>[deleted short explanation of s]

Also, OOPs incorporates concepts of captulization, and other things which,
ideally, would be adhered to.  The main idea is to think in terms of "objects",
things that are autonomous, rather than thinking in terms of simple data
structures which have no existance of their own.

eric

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