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From: firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Ada 9X
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Date: 12 Oct 89 15:50:21 GMT
References: <8910111843.AA11007@chance.mitre.org> <6754@hubcap.clemson.edu>
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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.