From: Gautier <Gautier.deMontmollin@Maths.UniNe.CH>
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: <36F80045.79815F7E@Maths.UniNe.CH> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7d8ik6$s6d$1@its.hooked.net
>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?
Maybe it's because Ada has OO but also other structures like packages
and genericity that are more idea-oriented, so usage of OO can be
avoided when it's inappropriate.
>BTW, Ada did come up in a Java newsgroup in a discussion of financial
>computing, fixed point, etc. Its ability to interface with COBOL and its
>built-in fixed-point capability were mentioned, and it was even pronounced
>the best general-purpose language to date by one fellow (a very dangerous
>thing to do in the Java world!).
Oh! That guy will be lapidated with coffee beans, at least!
--
Gautier
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1999-03-23 0:00 Where's Ada95 when OO languages are discussed? Mike Silva
1999-03-23 0:00 ` fred
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 ` 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 ` 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
1999-03-24 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
1999-03-23 0:00 ` Gautier [this message]
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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