Re: Object Orientation question

In article <FE1D4B4932ACD9AE.D6BB6E2EEEB1D468.7C04B0EB182458EC_at_lp.airnews.net>, "D" says...
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>Hi Koert,
>
>Actually, no, your answer doesn't help at all but it made for entertaining
>reading and had a couple of good points. :)
>
>True, C++ compilers run through a bunch of "C" files. (I can see it on a
>step through) And I agree that there are 'probably' not any OO Assemblers.
>(that would ultimately be pointless, I think.) Where does that leave us? I
>should probably direct the question to a C++ group since it is a chicken/egg
>sort of question.
>

and then there is the question "where is that object oriented intel/sparc/risc CPU", they all pretty much do simply "push", "pop", "add", "sub", "shift"

No polymorphism or inheritance on those CPU's yet ;)

btw: Oracle is Object Relational -- not OO....

>Thanks just the same.
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>Don
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>"koert54" <koert54_at_nospam.com> wrote in message
>news:A%SM7.8664$jD3.2695041206_at_hestia.telenet-ops.be...
>> So what ? Most C++ compilers generated C code as an intermediate step !
>Does
>> this mean C++ is not really object oriented ? (welllll let's
>> not discuss that :-) )
>> In the end, it all results in native assembler code - I never heard of OO
>> Assembler - did you ?
>> In a previous life I used to program cross compilers - I once rewrote a
>> back-end generating imperative C code (using a massive amount of GOTOs)
>into
>> a back-end generating OO Java (with no GOTOs at all (goto is a reserved
>word
>> but not implemented in java :-) !) ....
>> I hope this answered your question ?
>>
>> koert
>>
>>
>> "D" <asd_at_asdf.com> wrote in message
>> news:EB40DCB62E92E2CA.84081C89E9DAF8B7.8790309C4CC04EA6_at_lp.airnews.net...
>> > Hi Group,
>> >
>> > As I understand it Oracle 8 or greater denormalizes tables to acheive
>> object
>> > orientation. I also understand that most, if not all, of Oracle was
>> written
>> > in C (presumably ANSI C). C is not an object oriented language. So how
>> could
>> > a non-object oriented, procedural language create a system that is at
>some
>> > level, object oriented?
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> >
>> > Don
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
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>

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