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Re:Pretending OOP Never Happened by throwaway894345 on Friday May 15, 2020 @10:28PM (#23199952)
The whole GObject ecosystem is hacky object oriented C, to provide another suite of examples.
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Re:Pretending OOP Never Happened by hnick on Friday May 15, 2020 @11:13PM (#23200168)
I personally found hacked OO ala Perl to be the first time I really understood it, even after years of class diagrams at university. The abstraction got in the way. I needed the nuts and bolts.
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Re:Pretending OOP Never Happened by throwaway894345 on Saturday May 16, 2020 @11:51AM (#23204402)
Yeah, I delved into it when I was working with C, but by that time I had no interest in reproducing inheritance but only interfaces.
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