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,a270a1fc28d4f812 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-21 21:42:00 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.wirehub.nl!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3D14000A.C91C2C48@acm.org> From: Jeffrey Carter X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: OOD in Ada? References: <3d135676$0$8511$cc9e4d1f@news.dial.pipex.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 04:42:03 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.129.119.38 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net 1024720923 68.129.119.38 (Fri, 21 Jun 2002 21:42:03 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 21:42:03 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:26587 Date: 2002-06-22T04:42:03+00:00 List-Id: David Crocker wrote: > > I know that Ada95 tries to support O-O development, but from my perspective > as an OO developer but Ada novice, it appears to me that any attempt to > implement a large OO design in Ada will run into the following problems: I've been implementing object-oriented designs in Ada since 1984. Object orientation is a design feature, and has nothing to do with the use of specific implementation features, nor does the use of such features mean that the software is object oriented. -- Jeff Carter "Monsieur Arthur King, who has the brain of a duck, you know." Monty Python & the Holy Grail