From: paj@gec-mrc.co.uk (Paul Johnson)
Subject: Re: class society?
Date: 18 Oct 94 07:54:06 GMT
Date: 1994-10-18T07:54:06+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5556@gec-mrc.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1994Oct15.005331.1172@muvms6
Mark S. Hathaway (hathawa2@muvms6.wvnet.edu) wrote:
> Hello all,
> Has anyone seriously considered the idea, now that object-oriented design
> is understood pretty well, of developing one set of classes which would be
> held in public domain and implemented by all the language
> developers,
It was seriously considered for about 15 seconds at a meeting of NICE
(the Eiffel Consortium) a couple of years ago :-)
NICE is pushing forwards with a kernel standard for Eiffel, but data
structures are not in the frame. Contrary to what you say, there is
no consensus on how to do data structure libraries. As for anything
above that, forget it.
The nearest thing to a standard across Ada, Eiffel and C++ would be
the Booch libraries. Implementations now exist for all three languages
(although I have heard dire stories about the Ada implementation).
Paul.
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1994-10-15 4:53 class society? Mark S. Hathaway
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