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Subject: Re: YADTR (Yet Another DateTime Rant)
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On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 12:10 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> wrote:
> If encapsulation exists outside OO and inheritance is not key to it,
> what is OO then, a marketing term?
>

Yep, OO is a marketing term. So's programming - after all, it's just
flipping bits in memory... we only pretend it means anything. Do I
really exist, or do I just think I do?

ChrisA