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To: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
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Ludovic,

> And people not knowing Ada and thinking that the only OO language was
> C++.  I totally agree with Jean-Pierre that Ada has made a very
> important contribution to OO technology in distinguishing class-wide
> from specific types; 

Well this was part of Smalltalk since the beginning. Not sure Ada has
invented anything there :)

Pascal.

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