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Greg, >… As well (and you didn't say this wasn't either, but I'd like your >thoughts on it) one _can_ take an OO approach in C. In addition, some of >this has nothing to do with OO at al. Yes, OO technics can be employed in C and they have been. Data abstraction, encapsulation and user defined virtual tables for dynamic binding can be accomplished. Of course it a lot easier when these technics are built in to the language. >…These are the kinds of things that many C++ programmers mean when they >say that C++ made them better C programmers. Not only has it helped them >understand C better (for instance, syntactically) but it has made them a >better programmer in general. Absolutely agree. I wonder if C++ should be a required prerequisit course when learning C :-). Hani