From: David Starner <dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org>
Subject: Re: Where's Ada95 when OO languages are discussed?
Date: 1999/03/23
Date: 1999-03-23T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <36F7F02E.BC57F7CB@aasaa.ofe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7d8ik6$s6d$1@its.hooked.net
Mike Silva wrote:
>
> I've noticed that Ada95 is conspicuously absent when OO languages are
> discussed on the net. One would get the impression that C++, Java,
> Smalltalk and Eiffel are the only big players. Any thoughts as to why this
> is?
Two reasons:
1. Ada doesn't get much respect. By many people, it's considered a
overgrown monstrosity built by commitee. I also get the impression it's
not used for much mainstream stuff. Smalltalk has history, and C++, Java
and Eiffel are the new showoffs.
2. Ada's OO is weird. It doesn't follow the same class structure that
most of the OO world follows, and it feels like Ada95 tends towards
procedural programming, with a permission to program OO. On the contray,
the main reason to use C++ over C is OO, and Smalltalk, Java, and Eiffel
are 'pure' OO languages.
--
David Starner - OSU student - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org
If you want a real optimist, look up Ray Bradbury. Guy's nuts.
He actually likes people. -David Brin
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-03-23 0:00 Where's Ada95 when OO languages are discussed? Mike Silva
1999-03-23 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-03-23 0:00 ` David Starner [this message]
1999-03-23 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-23 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-03-23 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-23 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-03-23 0:00 ` Kevin
1999-03-26 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-03-24 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-27 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-03-28 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-24 0:00 ` John McCabe
1999-03-30 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1999-03-30 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-30 0:00 ` Mike Harrison
1999-03-30 0:00 ` dennison
1999-03-30 0:00 ` dennison
1999-03-31 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-04-13 0:00 ` John McCabe
1999-03-30 0:00 ` bglbv
1999-04-13 0:00 ` John McCabe
1999-03-24 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1999-03-24 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-24 0:00 ` SpamSpamSpam
1999-03-24 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-24 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-23 0:00 ` fred
1999-03-24 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1999-03-25 0:00 ` SpamSpamSpam
1999-03-25 0:00 ` Bob Munck
1999-03-25 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
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