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Subject: Re: Object oriented programming
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Date: Fri, 4-Sep-87 12:20:14 EDT
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/ hpcupt1:comp.lang.c / ADLER1%BRANDEIS.BITNET@wiscvm.wisc.EDU /  2:31 pm  Sep  1, 1987 /
A friend of mine has advised me that C++ has object oriented programming
features. It seems desirable to have such options but it is not possbile
for me to switch to C++ for a number of reasons. On the other hand, maybe
it is possible to obtain object oriented programming features with the
C compilers I do use. Perhaps this could be accomplished through certain
programming practices, by writing some auxiliary programs and using them
or otherwise.

My admittedly naive question is this: is it possible to do this without
essentially reinventing object oriented programming ?

Allan
ADLER1@BRANDEIS.BITNET
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you can do object-oriented programming with vanilla C but it takes a lot
of knowledge of how OOP is supposed to work and a lot of code.  we have
been working on some code that implements a quasi-Objective-C OOP model
without the overhead of Objective-C's general-purpose messaging scheme or
the (stupid) Objective-C garbage-collection mechanism.

wanna hint?  use C++ it will be easier in the long run...

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