On 2013-10-16, Mark Janssen <dreamingforw...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Types on the other hand correspond to our classifications and so are
>>>> things in our minds.
>>>
>>> That is not how a C programmer views it. They have explicit
>>> "typedef"s that make it a thing for the computer.
>>
>> Speaking as a C programmer, no. We have explicit typedefs to create new
>> labels for existing types, to make the type-abstraction easier to relate to
>> the object-abstraction.
>
> Who uses "object abstraction" in C? No one.
It's not that uncommon. I've seen it done many times.
> That's why C++ was invented.
C++ was invented because people _were_ doing object abstraction in C
and wanted an easier way to do it.
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