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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Another GS/OS Quirk
Message-ID: <13868@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 16 Sep 90 00:24:46 GMT
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Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <1546@madnix.UUCP> jason@madnix.UUCP (Jason Blochowiak) writes:
>Now, if we just had a nice OOP system for the GS, this could all become
>irrelevant!

When you consider that both Objective C and C++ are normally implemented
to generate regular C code that is then compiled, it should be clear that
C already offers sufficient support for object-oriented programming.  All
that is needed is a comprehensive plan backed up by programmer discipline.
To achieve object-like encapsulation, that in itself would suffice.  To
implement inheritance, late binding is required and thus there must be a
small run-time support module.  An entire object-oriented framework can be
constructed with one header file and one library module.