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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,95eaa0c908f1c040 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Michael Stark Subject: Re: the Ada object oriented-approach is stupid Date: 1998/11/25 Message-ID: <365C0959.C5@cs.umd.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 415522987 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <01be184b$6c7cbac0$7a36e5c0@pearl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@cs.umd.edu X-Trace: cronkite.cs.umd.edu 912001369 16820 128.8.126.43 (25 Nov 1998 13:42:49 GMT) Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742 Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 25 Nov 1998 13:42:49 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-11-25T13:42:49+00:00 List-Id: partha sarathi panda wrote: > > can anyone convince me on why the Ada object-oriented model does even > compare with the tight c++ one? I wouldn't even try ;) Seriously, the most important aspects of the OO model are language independent. As far as OOP languages go, C++ and Ada are closer to each other than a "pure" OO language such as Smalltalk. For example, neither C++ nor Ada require classes to be derived from a root class Object, and both allow objects to be declared as variables as well as allocated from the heap, while other OO languages require all objects to be created dynamically. I am not claiming a lot of similarity between Ada & C++, just these aspects of how classes work. Again, the most important OO concepts are language independent and used in requirements analysis and design. Mike -- Michael Stark Goddard Research & Study Fellow University of Maryland, College Park e-mail: mstark@cs.umd.edu phone: (301) 405-2721 "The term unprofessional is often used to characterize surprising or threatening behavior. Anything that upsets the weak manager is almost by definition unprofessional" -- Tom DeMarco, in "Peopleware"