Agree. What the author did here is just plain data types, not even abstract data types. Another big mistake in the article is

>Classes in an object oriented design are fundamentally ADTs

It isn't. I would suggest the paper Object-Oriented Programming Versus Abstract Data Types by William R. Cook which explains the fundamental differences between the two data abstraction techniques.

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https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/wcook/papers/OOPvsADT/CookOO...