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=1.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a7fcf7981bf99f93 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dweller@dfw.net (David Weller) Subject: Re: DRAGOON and Ada95 meet Java Date: 1996/02/18 Message-ID: <4g8olf$73a@dfw.dfw.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 140143364 references: <00001a73+0000284b@msn.com> organization: DFWNet -- Public Internet Access newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-02-18T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <00001a73+0000284b@msn.com>, Kenneth Mays wrote: >Hi again, > >I read some notes that DRAGOON was going to become an integral part >of Ada95. Some programmers are also looking into integrating Java >interfaces from Ada95. Supposedly, Java is an advancement from C++ >but resembles Ada95. Any wanting to comment their expertise on >DRAGOON on Java with the use of Ada95? > Hmm, I thought the only two people that used DRAGOON were Colin Atkinson and I* :-) It's certainly a dead issue, since DRAGOON has been largely unsupported for a few years. In any case, the issue of "behavioural inheritance" is a sticky one, and has not appeared in any current languages, including Java and Ada 95 (the feature of "behavioural inheritance", the ability to inherit concurrency behaviours at the leaf of an inheritance tree, is probably the one "significant" issue of DRAGOON that is not supported in Ada 95). Having said all that, I'm not entirely convinced it has a meaningful place in modern languages (that's a pretty pathetic postiion considering I've done research work on the very subject :-) *Colin Atkinson was the creator of DRAGOON; he was also my advisor at my last university. -- GNAT = GNAT is Not an Ada Translator ==Ada 95 Booch Components: www.ocsystems.com/booch or www.dfw.net/~dweller== Reality: Work, Work, Work, Guitar. | Plugged: Fender Telecaster Deluxe Fantasy: Guitar, Guitar, Guitar, Work(ha!) | Unplugged: Yamaha CG-150SA