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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
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Subject: Re: What is OO (Was Why don't large companies use Ada?)
Date: 30 Nov 1994 18:26:31 -0500
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the notion that inheritance is impossible in Ada 83 is bogus, obviously
you can program inheritance using nested components, it's not as pretty,
and you have to mess to get dispatching, but it's certainly doable.