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: 2002-06-22 21:55:20 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!wn1feed!worldnet.att.net!bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3D1554AF.6050001@worldnet.att.net> From: Jim Rogers User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: OOD in Ada? References: <3d135676$0$8511$cc9e4d1f@news.dial.pipex.com> <3D1440FA.9030409@ib-paus.com> <8db3d6c8.0206221933.496d3904@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 04:55:20 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.86.35.47 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1024808120 12.86.35.47 (Sun, 23 Jun 2002 04:55:20 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 04:55:20 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:26616 Date: 2002-06-23T04:55:20+00:00 List-Id: Steve_H wrote: > I wish someone would create a new language just like Ada in everything, > except the OO uses the normal 'class' construct as in Java and C++. > > I think the main reason why Ada is not too popular is that its OO constructs > are not the norm, they do not look like what almost every programmer from > other languages is used to looking at. > > It seems it should not be too hard for some language design expert to > design such a language. Or is there is anything out there that looks like > Ada, but with the 'class' for OO? Modula3 may be? > And we all know just how popular Modula3 is. Using a "class" structure like C++ or Java will break everything dealing with Ada packages. Breaking packages breaks all forms of encapsulation and name space in Ada. Breaking these destroys control of visibility of compilation units. Yea. I guess we should make Ada more like C++ and Java. That will fix everything. Jim Rogers