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The great strength of C++ is its object-oriented nature. I’m implying a great deal by this statement, and I’ll spend the next five chapters expanding on this topic. In this chapter and the next, I’ll discuss the foundation of object-oriented programming—the ability to define your own data types—but there is much more to this than simply adding new types. Object-oriented programming provides you with a powerful approach to programming that is fundamentally different from what you have seen up to now. In Chapters 13, 14, and 15 you’ll explore the detail of all the C++ techniques you might need to implement your own data types.
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Horton, I. (2004). Creating Your Own Data Types. In: Ivor Horton’s Beginning ANSI C++: The Complete Language. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0656-9_11
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