Re: OOP and large systems (was: Ada vs C++, ...)

[dlindsle@afit.af.mil (David T. Lindsley)]

Ada is not an OOPL in the classic sense, no.  But Ada does allow and
in fact encourage object-oriented _design_.  Encapsulation (packages),
information hiding (private types), etc., are part of OOD (and OOPLs).

In other words, many of the things that make Ada suitable for working
with/on large, complex systems are those object-oriented techniques which
the language _does_ support.  Given this, I find the statement that OO
(analysis? design? programming? all three?) are "largely irrelevant" 
to the development of large, complex systems somewhat hard to swallow.

This doesn't mean that I believe C++ or Smalltalk (or any of the other
OOPLs) to be superior to Ada in the production of large systems.  The
final word on OO{whatever} isn't in yet (IMHO) -- I await the judgment
of history on that score...

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