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Indeed. The meaning of "object" has always been pretty fuzzy in CS. When you compile C code, you get .o ("object") files. It's like "thingamajig".
by silentbicycle 16y ago
Indeed. The meaning of "object" has always been pretty fuzzy in CS. When you compile C code, you get .o ("object") files. It's like "thingamajig".
- jhrobert 16y agoThat's because the source is the plan to build a table, whereas the .o file is the table itself. Tables are objects, plans to build tables are ideas.
- silentbicycle 16y agoSure, but the connection between that and "object" in the OOP sense is tenuous. For all it matters, the .o file could contain "chunks".