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> I was somewhat disappointed to find out an object was just a struct with some functions attached > when I learned that they were just bundles of existing dat

> I was somewhat disappointed to find out an object was just a struct with some functions attached > when I learned that they were just bundles of existing data types, though 'oh is that all?' Uh-huh. When I learned how everything just translates to 0s and 1s in the end, I was also super "disappointed". Higher-level constructs and abstractions are new compositions of lower-level building blocks? How.. plain!

seanmcdirmid 9y ago
And all those zero and ones are still translated into electrons. Decomposing abstractions is often not very useful.
- MichaelBurge 9y ago
  And who says electrons exist as physical objects. They're just a mathematical abstraction physicists use to predict the results of experiments.
  - andai 9y ago
    Then you will see it is not the bit that flips, it is only yourself.
    - dualogy 9y ago
      They should put that in the 101 textbooks, so we won't waste decades writing billions of LoC!
    - taneq 9y ago
      The irony being that the spoon was CGI and hence composed entirely of bit flips.
taneq 9y ago
Think about the difference between an int and a string, or a string and a function pointer. Now think about the difference between an int and a pair of ints. See?