Re: What's the easiest and/or simplest part of Linux Kernel?

[Jerry Stuckle <jstuckle@attglobal.net>]

On 8/30/2013 1:53 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote:

> > As I said - you can emulate Object Based programming in C, although it
> > is messy.  You cannot create Object Oriented programs in C.
>
> Are you saying you can NOT emulate inheritance in C?
>
> Are you saying you can NOT emulate polymorphism in C?
>
> Again, albeit with clunkyness, syntactic ugliness,
> non-compiler-enforcement but only "policy" enforcement of visibility
> constraints etc etc?
>
> So again, are you saying that you are not merely splitting hairs over
> terminology here?
>
> If so, can you please explain why not, in terms that a non-C
> programmer can understand?
>
> Thank you
> Zenaan

No, I am not splitting hairs.  There is a difference between Object 
Based Programming, which supports encapsulation and message passing, and 
Object Oriented Programming, which also supports Inheritance and 
Polymorphism.

You can emulate OBP in C, although it's not very pretty or very nice 
(and quite prone to bugs).  But you cannot do Inheritance or 
Polymorphism in C.  The tools just aren't there.

Jerry