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  1. Object-oriented programs use abstract data types to represent
  2. objects in the application.  Programmers using traditional
  3. languages can also use abstract data types, in that they can
  4. create data structures that reflect a logical organization of the
  5. data in the application.  However, traditional languages do not
  6. always provide facilities that allow you to easily define and
  7. manipulate user-defined types.  In C, for example, there is
  8. no language support for the association between user-defined
  9. structures and the functions that manipulate them.
  10.