From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,1a6ba5211db88937 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed6.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!news.skynet.be!195.238.0.222.MISMATCH!newsspl501.isp.belgacom.be!tjb!not-for-mail Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:53:14 +0200 From: Olivier Scalbert User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090409) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada 12 times more popular than Eiffel References: <7bd1fd9d-6040-4f20-8e06-7ba41ca64db8@f19g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> <4A27FED7.1070404@obry.net> <4A2806A9.3050600@obry.net> In-Reply-To: <4A2806A9.3050600@obry.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <4a281868$0$2860$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be> Organization: -= Belgacom Usenet Service =- NNTP-Posting-Host: 9b551352.news.skynet.be X-Trace: 1244141672 news.skynet.be 2860 87.65.169.242:37977 X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@skynet.be Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:6266 Date: 2009-06-04T20:53:14+02:00 List-Id: Pascal Obry wrote: > Not sure he has said that Eiffel was inspired from Ada, maybe on the > early days... IIRC, in his book Object-Oriented Software Construction > there is very few (if any) references to Ada. > Hi, In the second edition of this book, there are around 75 references to Ada in the index. And there is also a 20 pages chapter called "O-O programming and Ada". By the way, in one of these pages, Oberon (which I completely forgot) was also mentioned ! Olivier.