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[-] bestelbus22@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Interesting, how did they do inheritance? Something like void *super? Also why not switch to CPP if you wanna do OOP?

[-] xiii@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

In general, 'classes' declarations were done with macro. I don't remember the exact code — something akin to

BEGIN_CLASS(A, Parent);
CLASS_MEMBER(a...)
END_CLASS();

The project had started before C++ existed, and the switch would be too costly. It's not just OOP part, also reflection mechanism with bindings to the homemade scripting language, and multi-platform UI library. It was a gem of its time.

[-] bestelbus22@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

That sounds like quite a challenge to maintain, to speak in euphemisms ;)

[-] xiii@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

Revolutionary technologies of the '80 make me appreciate modern programming languages and especially tooling much more.

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