Pascal not considered harmful - was Re: Rich kids are into COBOL

[Eric Smith]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 1:15 PM, ben <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca> wrote:
> I never could figure out the point of Objects.

The point of objects is to support data abstraction by disallowing any
old random code in a large system from directly manipulating the
innards of the objects, and instead require that to be done by methods
declared to be part of the object.

> Every data type is different.

If that weren't true, you'd only need one kind of object.

Perhaps what you're questioning is inheritance, which is useful but
isn't necessarily a required feature of objects. Inheritance is based
on the idea that while two types aren't identical, they may have
similarities. As a trivial example, integers and floats are different
data types, but they both support arithmetic.