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

[rusi]

On Wednesday, October 16, 2013 11:27:03 PM UTC+5:30, zipher wrote:
> >>> 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.

I wonder if you've heard of something called linux?
http://lwn.net/Articles/444910/