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From: chris@uswmrg2.UUCP (Chris Fedde)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Book on oo based C
Keywords: object based C
Message-ID: <1990Jul18.221422.19049@uswmrg2.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jul 90 22:14:22 GMT
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In article <5221@darkstar.ucsc.edu> daniel@terra.UUCP (Daniel Edelson) writes:
>In article <1114@fang.dsto.oz> dch@aeg.dsto.oz.au (Dave Hanslip) writes:
>>leo@atcmp.nl (Leo  Willems) writes:
>>
>>>I am looking for a book which describes the object oriented concepts,
>>>but its examples must be expressed in C (so it will be object based).
>>
>>"Object Oriented Program Design in C++" by Mullins, Addison Wesley 1989
>>is excellent.
>
>Try also ``C++ for C programmers,'' by Pohl, Benjamin Cummins, 1990
>
>daniel@cis.ucsc.edu

I think so far we have missed the point here.  The original author
(Leo Willems) is talking about objective techniques using 'C' not
'C++' or some other descendant of the language.

The only book that I have read which addresses concepts of object
programming using normal 'C' syntax: _Reusable_Data_Structures_for_C_
by Roger Sessions (sorry, I don't have the volume at hand for the ISBN).

The author develops a set of techniques for using file scope and
(void*) or (char*) to implement data abstraction and runtime binding.
Polymorphism and inheritance are not addressed at all but then it's
not really a book about object programming just about safe 'C' module
writing.  Still Sessions' techniques can be used to implement a system
which has been derived through object design.  And many concepts and
idoms he uses will be usefull regardless of the language you are using.



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