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Subject: Re: OOD in Ada?
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 22:33:27 -0700
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Jim Rogers wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

No, not M3. The OO features of M3 are just as different as those of
Ada, maybe moreso.  That must explain something.


Al