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From: "Marco Costalba" <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: C++ *for Git*
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On 9/23/07, Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:
> You must have misunderstood.  Why?  The linux kernel is itself very
> heavily "object oriented" already, even if it is written in C.  You
> don't need C++ for that.
>

Yes it's true, you don't need it. Object oriented in C is achived
using function pointers.

In C you fill a struct of function pointers with proper values instead
of inherithing from an (abstract) base class as you would do in C++.
The results are more or less the same modulo some type safe.


Marco