[gameprogrammer] Re: OT: C vs. C++ (Was: Re: [SDL] Re: A question on GUIs)

Chris Nystrom wrote: 
On 12/26/05, Clemens Kirchgatterer <clemens@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

this audio lib by no means is anywhere near OO, IMHO. 


I do not claim to be an expert, but I believe you are making OO more
complicated than it is.
Going by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_programming:

"In the most general terms, OOP is the practice of writing program
text decomposed in modules that encapsulate the representation of one
data type per module..."

Basically data + methods = objects (or more accurately classes).

No, actually, data is inherent to *objects*, not classes, except metadata about objects of the class. Objects are fairly concrete things, you can point to them or reference them or assign them, and they have a type (which is the class).

I'd recommend reading that article more closely...

"According to the object-oriented principles, the verb is attached to the object and logic associated to the requirement is handled in the object."

And

"Widely-used terminology distinguishes object-oriented programming from object-based. The former is held to include inheritance (described below), while the latter does not."

Point to some specific hallmarks of OOP that a library encapsulating data does not meet.

That doesn't really say anything about the quality of your software, just how you wrote it. Writing in C, without a lot of overhead and effort, isn't going to be OOP.
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Matthew Weigel



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