5 Dec
2003
5 Dec
'03
6:32 p.m.
Hello Andrew,
A recent discussion with ROS_Guy on IRC prompted me to
start toying with the
idea of a completely object-oriented system.
I implemented a few test classes, and it was written in a combination of C
and C++ (the main interface was C.) Basically you'd have objects and
classes, as with OO programming.
However, the difference here is that files would be object instances, and to
use a file you'd just "import" the object. The system would then
automatically load the file handler for that object. By default, a "class"
handler allows special DLLs to be loaded that contain a class definition
(not in the C++ sense - it was a table of action names with addresses). In
effect, a class in this case would've been an instance to begin with (an
instance of the CLASS object.)
Thise ideas are in now way "crazy". :-)
Did you ever look into BeOS?
They were using a C++ API exposed by the operating system.
The whole system could be seen as an object oriented environment!
I've got the book "Beos developer guide" lying around here. It's all
described there.
Sadly they did not earn enough money, so the project died in the end.
Martin