From: christoph.grein@eurocopter.com
Subject: Re: The A-Z of Programming Languages: Ada, interview with S. Tucker Taft
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:25:25 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2008-06-12T00:25:25-07:00 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: g2pvqu$s6u$1@jacob-sparre.dk
On 12 Jun., 03:57, "Randy Brukardt" <ra...@rrsoftware.com> wrote:
> I personally thought that using derived types (which no one understood in
> Ada 83)
What do you mean? I used type derivation a lot in Ada 83 with much
benefit for handling physical types adding new operations on the
derived type.
And there is the trick attributed to John Goodenough to add user-
defined equality to any type.
> to implement classes was a mistake. Tucker was adamant on this
> point. I'm still not sure if he was right, but I'm used to it now.
Why this? I think that using the Ada 83 type derivation facility for
this is very natural. Why invent a completely new technique?
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-04 10:52 The A-Z of Programming Languages: Ada, interview with S. Tucker Taft Ludovic Brenta
2008-06-04 14:14 ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-06-04 14:59 ` Ludovic Brenta
2008-06-05 2:01 ` Marc A. Criley
2008-06-05 13:58 ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-06-05 14:13 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2008-06-05 19:40 ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-06-05 20:46 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-06-06 17:57 ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-06-06 19:34 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-06-05 15:00 ` Ed Falis
2008-06-12 1:57 ` Randy Brukardt
2008-06-12 7:25 ` christoph.grein [this message]
2008-06-06 14:09 ` Ludovic Brenta
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