Re: Why isn't GDB designed and implemented by using Object-Oriented methodology?

[Robert Dewar <dewar at adacore dot com>]

Joel Brobecker wrote:
> > > When meeting so many structs and function pointer in the source codes,
> > > dose anyone have the thought to redesign and implement GDB using
> > > Object-Oriented  methodology?
> > See the last discussion:
> > 	Move GDB to C++ ?
> > 	http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2008-07/msg00077.html
> > 	http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2008-08/msg00004.html
>
> One can develop software using "Object Oriented *methodology*" without
> using a language that implements classes. An object is, at its simplest,
> data and methods. 

Interesting to see this definition take hold, very different from
the classical (e.g. Simula) view of objects. To me data+methods =
abstract data type.