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Date: 19 Feb 93 10:20:23 GMT
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sing.switch.ch!sicsun!disuns2!lglsun!magnus@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU  (Magnus Kempe)
Subject: Re: Ichibah [sic] flames, and flames out over, Ada 9X
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In article <1993Feb17.065421.12021@sei.cmu.edu>,
wellerd@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu (David Weller) writes:
: 
: I believe [Ichbiah] also used it as a platform to make a final
: protest against the "with private" clause for tagged types.
: ...
: He was rather insistent on creating a class-based language, rather
: than the tagged types that we have now.

Both statements are erroneous.

The disagreement around tagged types was about _syntax_ (esthetics).
Not about semantics.

-- 
Magnus Kempe                "No nation was ever drunk when wine was cheap."
magnus@lglsun.epfl.ch                                   -- Thomas Jefferson