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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f868fe8fe0ec86c1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-07 15:27:21 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!howland.erols.net!feed2.news.rcn.net!rcn!chnws02.mediaone.net!chnws06.ne.mediaone.net!24.128.8.202!typhoon.ne.mediaone.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3B1FFFEC.2544571@mediaone.net> From: Ed Falis X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: smalltalk vs. Ada References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 22:27:19 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.96.132.248 X-Complaints-To: abuse@mediaone.net X-Trace: typhoon.ne.mediaone.net 991952839 65.96.132.248 (Thu, 07 Jun 2001 18:27:19 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 18:27:19 EDT Organization: Road Runner Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8365 Date: 2001-06-07T22:27:19+00:00 List-Id: Rod Weston wrote: > Still investigating OOP languages. I'm quite impressed with Ada, from > what I've seen and read so far, but now want to turn my attention to > smalltalk. Any ideas on how Ada and smalltalk compare? Are there any > other OOP languages worth looking at? They're birds of quite different feathers - and both worth familiarizing yourself with. Sticking just to OO, I'd also take a look at Eiffel. For scripting, Ruby. And in functional languages, Haskell is worth a look, too. Language exploration can be a lifetime pasttime. - Ed