On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 5:49 AM, Skip Montanaro <s...@pobox.com> wrote: >>> Who uses "object abstraction" in C? No one. That's why C++ was invented. >> >> I wonder if you've heard of something called linux? >> http://lwn.net/Articles/444910/ > > If not, Linux, how about Python? > > http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/e2a411a429d6/Objects
Or huge slabs of the OS/2 Presentation Manager, which is entirely object oriented and mostly C. It's done with SOM, so it's possible to subclass someone else's object using a completely different language. Makes for a lot of boilerplate in the source code, but it works. You can even - often without the different subclasses being aware of each other - have two or more unrelated modules each subclass-and-replace a standard class like WPFolder (which represents a folder, usually backed by a directory on disk) to modify its behaviour. Yep, definitely possible to write OO code in C. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
