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"Pat Rogers" <progers@classwide.com> wrote in message
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> IMHO, the critical benefit of OOP is the supported separation of code that
> will change from code that need not.  Run-time polymorphism is the means
to
> that end, not the end itself.

I think that this completely misses the essential flavor of OOP.