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: 103376,349657f8b72f2411 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Gautier Subject: Re: Where's Ada95 when OO languages are discussed? Date: 1999/03/23 Message-ID: <36F80045.79815F7E@Maths.UniNe.CH>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 458107848 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <7d8ik6$s6d$1@its.hooked.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-03-23T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: >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