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Quote: computers must represent values as objects since abstractions are not physical

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value as an abstraction
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value as an object
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primitive data types for Thesa

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Computers use objects to represent values. … Abstractions are not physical objects … , so to deal with them they must … Clearly, whenever a value is to be manipulated … Therefore, everything "in" a computer is an object; …   Google-1   Google-2

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