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From: firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth)
Subject: Re: Ada 9X
Date: 12 Oct 89 15:50:21 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4467@bd.sei.cmu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6754@hubcap.clemson.edu

In article <6754@hubcap.clemson.edu> billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu writes:

>   This has already been addressed; the object-oriented software
>   engineering paradigm is not currently being properly supported,
>   although Ada was largely designed around object-*based* concepts.

>   Continued evolution in object-oriented thinking has produced an
>   important new concept (multiple inheritance) which must now be
>   incorporated in support of current software engineering technology.

On the other hand, consider the possibility that 'object-oriented'
is just the current fashionable brand of snake oil.  Like 'lateral
thinking', 'right-brain thinking', 'egoless programming', and the
hula hoop.

  reply	other threads:[~1989-10-12 15:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1989-10-11 18:43 Ada 9X/Y Bob Munck
1989-10-12 15:22 ` Ada 9X William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 
1989-10-12 15:50   ` Robert Firth [this message]
1989-10-12 18:58     ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 
1989-10-12 19:20     ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 
1989-10-13 14:46   ` Robert Munck
1989-10-15 20:48 ` Ada 9X/Y Scott Simpson
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1991-04-24 15:12 Ada 9X byrne
1991-04-25  8:03 ` Matthias Ulrich Neeracher
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