Re: C++ virtual function mechanism in Ada ?

[dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)]

dmitry@elros.cbb-automation.de (Dmitry A. Kazakov) wrote in message news:<3b600dd2.859745@news.cis.dfn.de>...

> It depends. I remember in my high school years [middle 80s], Ada 83
> was already well known. It was not taught [FORTRAN and PL1 were
> lectured] but it was recomended for self study and sometimes hotly
> discussed. In contrary to this, C was completely unknown

Well any high school can teach anything and that does not prove much
(some high schools in the states teach creationism :-)

But in fact C was of course well known in that period, and any
programming language course not mentioning C that was taught in
the middle 80's was really decrepit. C is for example definitely
a whole generation after Fortran, and to teach Fortran and PL1 
without mentioning C at that time in a PL course is more than
a bit odd!

My first exposure to C was on a PDP-11 in the early 70's. Very
nice compiler and a very nice system (a single 128K PDP-11 could
happily support dozens of users in time sharing mode :-)