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From: "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org>
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Subject: Re: Final Fantasy 2 based game source code
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Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> It is possible to write OO code in C.
>
> And you code example is pretty OO'ish.
>
> The fact that the C language is not designed for OOP does
> not make it impossible to write OO code - it just make
> it a little bit harder.

And such techniques are (or have been) used to write C in OO style in the "real 
world".

I first came across the technique in the mid/late 1980s in the source for the 
"fig" drawing tool.  It struck me as an elegant and powerful way of structuring 
code although I knew nothing of OO at the time (but, looking back, I can see 
that my own code -- pre-"fig" -- was already edging towards what I would later 
call "OO").

    -- chris