<html><body><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><br></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Michael Trausch" <mike@trausch.us><br><b>To: </b>"Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale@ale.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, August 6, 2015 1:23:35 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [ale] Ruby vs C, a non-technical chat<br><div><br></div><br><div><br></div>A nugget that I don't recall where I got it: program into a language, not in it. Then it doesn't matter. C has no objects, but that doesn't stop one from using a struct as an object template and another one as a vtable...<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Microsoft's idea of 'handles' motivated me to add objects to C code. As I started using higher level languages we needed to code in I started taking time replicating their APIs in C and we use those. ServerSocket, Socket, Vector, String, etc are ones I implemented in C libraries based on the Java doc.</div><div><br></div></div></body></html>