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From: new@udel.EDU (Darren New)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: C++ and other OOP Languages
Keywords: C++, OOPS
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Date: 28 Apr 89 19:19:11 GMT
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In article <832@ethz.UUCP> marti@ethz.UUCP (Robert Marti) writes:
>In article <5971@pdn.paradyne.com>, alan@rnms1.paradyne.com (Alan Lovejoy)
>writes:
>| So what's the difference between a class and an abstract data type?
>| Comments?
>
>Same difference as far as I am concerned.

My understanding of the difference between classes and ADTs is that
class instances have states whereas ADT `instances' are expressions.
In other words, it is similar to the difference between
procedural languages (classes) and functional languages (ADTs).
		-- Darren