Re: Where are the other parigrams?

From: Percival (dragontamer5788_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 01/14/05 

Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 01:08:52 -0500

On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 05:10:37 +0000, Phlip wrote:

> Percival wrote:
>
>> Not only that, but I learn that you do not need Object oriented
>> programming to have code reuse (use any C library for example) or
>> portability and changing of implementation vs interface (Unix in general,
>> many machines, many assembly implementations, same interface) Abstraction
>> is always done in programming an extra layer (SDL or DirectX vs using
>> assembly level i/o port "in" and "out" commands)
>
> But that _is_ OO. It's "polymorphism" - the ability to use a single,
> pluggable interface for different behaviors.
>
> You are finding the hype about OO and non-OO are slightly different from the
> real thing.

OO has an emphasis on object interaction. Having polymorphism in code is
called polymorphism, and not Object Oriented (though I cannot think of a
non-OO way to do polymorphism...)

Besides, I don't think SDL is an example of polymorphism (except with its
event structure) Even then, it is a case statement for the events.

Percival

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