Re: More Ashamedness of Ada - this time OBJECT WORLD

[csn!news.den.mmc.com!possum.den.mmc.com!sims@handies.ucar.edu (John Sims]

wellerd@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu (David Weller @ Ada Joint Program Office) writes

>  I think the big reason is that OO developers, especially C++
> developers, are beginning to have problems developing large projects. Mind
> you, "large" to a C++er is over 50KSLOC.  Then they look at me strangely
> when I giggle and say "poor you"s.  Language wars aside, people are learning 
> > > that Ada's (current) lack of inheritance and run-time dispatching doesn't
> equate to the fact you can't build an object-oriented system in it.  Most
> Ada developers have known this for over a decade, long before Bjarne was
				     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Hmm, your copy of 1815A must be different from mine.  I could swear mine
is dated 1983, which seems to be a little shy of a decade ago, at least
according to my calendar.  And wasn't it the early mid 80s before
reasonable compilers came out?

John
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