From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,FROM_ADDR_WS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 30 Oct 92 15:04:26 GMT From: csn!news.den.mmc.com!possum.den.mmc.com!sims@handies.ucar.edu (John Sims ) Subject: Re: More Ashamedness of Ada - this time OBJECT WORLD Message-ID: <1992Oct30.150426.19736@den.mmc.com> List-Id: 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 -- John Sims sims@pogo.den.mmc.com