From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,53a10f13910610ed,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: f8c65,53a10f13910610ed,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf8c65,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,53a10f13910610ed,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-10-15 17:38:57 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!RBSE.Mountain.Net!wvnvms!marshall.wvnet.edu!hathawa2 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.modula2 Subject: class society? Message-ID: <1994Oct15.005331.1172@muvms6> From: hathawa2@muvms6.wvnet.edu (Mark S. Hathaway) Date: 15 Oct 94 00:53:31 EDT Organization: Marshall University Xref: bga.com comp.lang.ada:6955 comp.lang.eiffel:2277 comp.lang.modula2:1651 Date: 1994-10-15T00:53:31-04:00 List-Id: Hello all, Has anyone seriously considered the idea, now that object-oriented design is understood pretty well, of developing one set of classes which would be held in public domain and implemented by all the language developers, so that software developers won't have the mind-bogglingly difficult task of learning 15 different sets of libraries of thousands of classes, types, procedures, functions, constants, etc.? It seems this and the emerging standard for interfaces (ILU for one) would make life much easier for all who really work at developing software. I know some languages still don't have inheritance and some have single- inheritance and some have multiple-inheritance. Could that be overcome in the design/selection of the class tree? No bugs, Mark S. Hathaway