Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!mailrus!ames!ncar!unmvax!pprg.unm.edu!topgun.dspo.gov!lanl!opus!ted From: ted@nmsu.edu (Ted Dunning) Newsgroups: comp.sw.components Subject: Re: Inheritance vs. component efficienc Message-ID: Date: 24 Aug 89 21:02:14 GMT References: <5682@hubcap.clemson.edu> <130200005@p.cs.uiuc.edu> <1233@ttds.UUCP> <3053@vlot.cs.vu.nl> Sender: news@nmsu.edu Organization: NMSU Computer Science Lines: 21 In-reply-to: jos@cs.vu.nl's message of 24 Aug 89 06:53:35 GMT In article <3053@vlot.cs.vu.nl> jos@cs.vu.nl (Jos Warmer) writes: ... Run-time binding still seems neccesary. OO languages offer this support automatically. In C you can do-it-yourself, although it looks very cumbersome to me. the best example around is the X11 toolkit. they do wonderful things with oo programming by hand in c. unfortunately, there is a mountain of code to plough through when you want to write or read the code for a widget. of course you can learn to skip all the uninteresting parts, but why is this necessary? -- ted@nmsu.edu Most of all, he loved the fall when the cottonwoods leaves turned gold and floated down the trout streams under the clear blue windswept skies.