Re:Pointers Are More Abstract Than You Might Expect in C
by jimmy1 on Monday July 02, 2018 @09:14AM
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On a very high level, in the vast majority of cases, you bring along lot of baggage, both in code and mental, that you don't need, and compared to some alternatives, such as composition, it is simply far less flexible. Inheritance fits a much smaller subset of problems than people think (one of them is GUI design, a problem inheritance fits with nicely). But like everything in this industry, it tries to get shoe-horned in to solve every problem.
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Re:Pointers Are More Abstract Than You Might Expect in C
by stevenwoo on Monday July 02, 2018 @02:37PM
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It's surprising when I go into interviews and the people interviewing me do not have enough experience working with object oriented code (in the languages I know) to have come to realize this - it's one of those things it seems to have to be relearned over and over.