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From: bscrawford@aol.com (BSCrawford)
Subject: Re: friend classes in ada95
Date: 2000/04/20
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Robert, you said

>No, that's much too broad, the object oriented approach is
>only one particular way of representing or modeling the
>world.

You have pointed out that several commonr notions of what the 
object oriented approach is are wrong.  Could you please give 
us a brief characterization of what it is?  For example, how is 
it different from an approach based on ADT's classified using 
inheritance hierarchies? 

Bard Crawford