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Date: 5 Dec 92 00:17:12 GMT
From: wdl39!mab@ford-wdl1.arpa  (Mark A Biggar)
Subject: Re: C++ vs. Ada -- Is Ada loosing?
Message-ID: <1992Dec5.001712.16116@wdl.loral.com>
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In article <1992Dec4.141816.1@happy.colorado.edu> srheintze@happy.colorado.edu 
writes:
>Where is Ada going?  Is it dying? That thread on "Is GNU-Ada self-insulting"
>suggests that Ada is floundering. How badly is Ada floundering? Does that mean
>I'll never see inheritance in Ada?
>				Sieg

But, Ada already has inheritance.  That's what derived types provide.  What
Ada doesn't currently have are type extension and dynamic dispatching, Both
of which are being added to Ada9x.

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Mark Biggar
mab@wdl1.wdl.loral.com