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

[Piet van Oostrum]

Peter Cacioppi <peter.cacioppi at gmail.com> writes:

>> What you've said here is that "without polymorphism, you can't have
>> polymorphism". :) 
>
> Respectfully, no. I refer to the distinction between object based and object oriented programming. Wikipedia's entry is consistent with my understanding (not to argue by wiki-authority, but the terminology here isn't my personal invention).
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> Your example of "polymorphism in a non OO" language makes my tired head hurt. Do you have a clean little example of polymorphism being mocked in a reasonable way with pure C? There are many nice object-based C projects floating around, but real polymorphism? I think you can't do it without some bizarre work-arounds, but I'd be happy to be shown otherwise.

The first C++ compilers were just preprocessors that translated into pure C code, which was then compiled with a C compiler. The resulting intermediate C code would be an object-oriented program in C. IIRC, the C code was reasonably clear, not really convoluted, so you would have been able to write it yourself.
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