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From: mikael@sm.luth.se (Mikael Eriksson)
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Subject: Re: Good Design Strategies <Was comments on comments>
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Date: 28 Feb 89 11:23:01 GMT
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In article <4574@hubcap.UUCP> wtwolfe@hubcap.clemson.edu writes:
>>From article <4343@enea.se>, by sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog):
>> What I like to stress is: Ada is *not* an object-oriented language.
>
>    I quote from ACM SIGADA Ada Letters, March/April 1989, Volume IX,
>    Number 2, Page 10:
>
>      Software Productivity Solutions, Inc., has announced a new product,
>      Classic-Ada (tm), which allows Ada software developers to use
>      inheritance and dynamic binding in object-oriented Ada designs.

You mean that they sell a *super-set* of ADA?

Mild sarcasm on:
This must be what we all have been waiting for !
Mild sarcasm off.

ADA is too much of an elephant already. I totally agree that
inheritance is good but ADA would have to be pruned a lot
before something new should be added to it.

  mikael
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