Re: XML DOM Binding for Ada 95 - matter of style

[Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com>]

I don't recall saying that inheritance-oriented programming is the 
solution to all problems. :-)

IIRC I said that I thought it was a better technique for reflecting the 
design of the XML DOM. I regularly work with software that does not use 
OOP and if it had to support inheritance, it would lead to unacceptable 
inefficiencies. That software is not "bad" by any definition of the 
word. I have used discriminated records in a wide variety of 
circumstances - including hard realtime apps. So I'm not a chauvanistic 
supporter of OOP or a total enemy of discriminated records. I just think 
they were the *wrong* implementation choice for the design under discussion.

MDC



Matthew Heaney wrote:
> "Marin David Condic" <nobody@noplace.com> wrote in message
> news:3F2BA9C8.9030700@noplace.com...
> 
>>I see tagged types as the way to fully implement the Object Oriented
>>paradigm in Ada.
> 
> 
> To help convince you that inheritance-oriented programming is not the
> solution to all problems, I suggest you read this interview with Stepanov:
> 


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