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6.1 Terminology

As mentioned before, Pike uses a different terminology than C++ does. This has historic reasons, but might be changed in the future. In the meantime, you might benefit from this mini-dictionary which translates Pike-ish terms to C++-ish terms:
a class
a class
a clone
an instance of a class
to clone
to create an instance
an object
an instance of a class
a program
a class

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