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From: jokiniem@cs.Helsinki.FI (Jari Jokiniemi)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: OOP in C
Message-ID: <3356@hydra.Helsinki.FI>
Date: 7 Dec 89 08:02:55 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki, Finland
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We are doing some research on transaction processing on heteroneneous
distributed databases. We have implemented our demo programm using
C language with very conventional programming techniques.

There has been some discussion that one can use object oriented programming
techiques even when writing the programm with any conventional language. Since
the concept of what these OOP techniques really are in practise is not well
explained in any book we've found, the very idea of OOP has remained
fuzzy for us. 

Therefore I ask some help from the netlanders. Would someone
give some examples written in C or some other conventional language 
about what OOP is in practice. We are especially interested in what
data structures are needed, why they are needed, and what benefits may
we gain by using them instead of some other alternatives. We can not
change the programming language, and that is why examples written in C 
would be the ones mostly needed.


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