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by dragonwriter 2612 days ago
> Using an array without having to (manually) calculate the size of the objects contained within is like the major triumph of OO.

Er, aside from C and ASM, few non-OO languages require that kind of manual effort. That's not a triumph of OO, it's a triumph of using just about any language that has an approach to memory management above the level of assembly.