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From: "Dr. Michael Paus" <paus@ib-paus.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: OOD in Ada?
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 09:46:46 +0200
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steve_H wrote:
> "Dr. Michael Paus" <paus@ib-paus.com> wrote in message news:<3D1440FA.9030409@ib-paus.com>...
>  
> 
>>>2. The lack of a "dot" notation (or anything similar) for calling a member
>>>method, making the code hard to read and hard to determine where dynamic
>>>binding may be taking place.
>>
>  
> 
>>This is indeed one of the more serious problems. 
> 
> 
> 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 it would be more worthwhile to build on Java and put in all the
nice things of Ada which are missing in Java but could be introduced
without major problems.

Michael