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Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 11:09:13 +1100
Subject: Re: Python was designed (was Re: Multi-threading in Python vs Java)
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On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> wrote:
> In article <cb5c412c-7d41-4778-acc6-c822008482d7@googlegroups.com>,
>  Peter Cacioppi <peter.cacioppi@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> OTOH, I've seen object-based C development projects (I.e. where you could
>> tell what function was being called at compile time) that are quite readable.
>
> If you can tell what function will be called by looking at the code,
> it's not object oriented enough :-)

Is that why there's the International Object-oriented C Code Contest
at www.ioccc.org ?

ChrisA