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I remember coming across that - we mostly used MASM back in the day but when I found the object-oriented TASM stuff I was very tempted. Didn't really make a whole lot of sense since C++ is already pretty low-level, especially back in the 90s.

The other interesting Borland OO thing was the C++ language extension for OWL (Object Windows Library, an early C++ GUI lib for WIndows) to link windows messages to member functions. It was addictively productive, when we switched over to MFC later on it felt like a step back.




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