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From: kshillin@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu (Keith Shillington)
Subject: Re: Ichbiah's comment about C++ components
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 11:22:14 EDT
Date: 1994-09-15T11:22:14-04:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1994Sep15.112214.19209@sei.cmu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: INFO-ADA%94090505321898@VM1.NODAK.EDU

In article <INFO-ADA%94090505321898@VM1.NODAK.EDU> Simtel20 Transfer <HARBAUGH@ROO.FIT.EDU> writes:
nice discussion on Ichbiah's comments on availability of components.
Interesting to note that this could prove to be a springboard for a similar
set of Ada (9X) components.
>
>Ichbiah is right in what he says.  I also recall Ken Bowles
>talking about the future world of Ada components (circa 1983).
>I don't know who said it first but since the language
>supports it I would guess, Ichbiah.

To set the record straight.  Ken first started writing about the need for
software components circa 1977.  I may have somewhere in the archive copies of
the rationale for the UCSD Pascal "unit", which may be considered to be an
ancestor of the Ada package.  I don't have records of Jean's history, but
have managed to follow Ken pretty closely over the years.  You will find
discussion of the software component concept in Ken's introductory Pascal text.
>
>sam harbaugh HARBAUGH@ROO.FIT.EDU

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