[WalterBright]

I've seen OOP code written in Fortran-10. It blew my mind at the time (I didn't even know it was called OOP until years later).

But only once. And probably by someone who had learned OOP in another language that was built around OOP.

I was in the C business before, during, and after the OOP revolution. I never saw any OOP attempts in C before C++ came along and popularized OOP. Many C programmers didn't want to move to C++, and were determined to make it work in C. It did work, but the result was kinda hideous and terribly fragile (had to throw type safety out the window with all the necessary casting).

> I don't know of anyone else who has written a working C++ compiler almost by themselves

Neither do I :-) Thanks for the kind words.