Python was designed (was Re: Multi-threading in Python vs Java)

Mark Janssen dreamingforward at gmail.com
Wed Oct 16 13:57:03 EDT 2013


>>> Types on the other hand correspond to our classifications and so are
>>> things in our minds.
>>
>> That is not how a C programmer views it.  They have explicit
>> "typedef"s that make it a thing for the computer.
>
> Speaking as a C programmer, no.  We have explicit typedefs to create new
> labels for existing types, to make the type-abstraction easier to relate to
> the object-abstraction.

Who uses "object abstraction" in C?  No one.  That's why C++ was invented.

-- 
MarkJ
Tacoma, Washington



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