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On 27/08/2024 00:33, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
> On 25.08.2024 20:24, Bart wrote:
>> On 25/08/2024 19:12, Bonita Montero wrote:
>>> Am 25.08.2024 um 18:28 schrieb Michael S:
>>>
>>>> Define "abstraction".
> 
> This could have been looked up online (e.g. in a Wikipedia article).
> 
>>>
>>> OOP, functional programming, generic programming, exceptions.
> 
> (And there are yet more.)
> 
>>
>> That isn't surprising. The code you constantly post always uses the most
>> advanced features, uses every toy that is available, and the most
>> elaborate algorithms.
> 
> I'm not sure in what bubble you lived the past decades. The listed
> abstraction examples date back to the 1960's. They were realized in
> many programming languages,

Perhaps not so much in the ones people used. Assembly? Fortran? Cobol? 
There have always been academic languages.

  including long existing ones as well as
> many contemporary ones. I suggest to try to understand the concepts
> if you want to reach the next experience level. :-)

I sometimes use (and implement) such features in scripting code which 
has the support to use them effortlessly.

I've rarely needed them for systems programming.

My comments were in connection with their clunky and abstruse 
implementations in C++, and BM's habit of posting C++ code full of 
gratuitous uses of such features.