On 6/7/2013 8:59 PM, Manu wrote:
Because they embody functionality, not just data. That's just how many many programmers write code. Go to university for a couple of years, see what they tell you... ;) Some of these systems can effectively be considered plugins. Consider OpenGL/DirectX? DirectSound/XAudio? Linux has a million back-end API's to choose from. I can see why many people feel it's natural to design their API's/systems that way, right or wrong.
So they don't need to be classes at all. It's not about embodying functionality vs data. It's about having a value type vs a polymorphic ref type.
