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From: "Mike Silva" <mjsilva@jps.net>
Subject: Where's Ada95 when OO languages are discussed?
Date: 1999/03/23
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Date: 1999-03-23T00:00:00+00:00
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I've noticed that Ada95 is conspicuously absent when OO languages are
discussed on the net.  One would get the impression that C++, Java,
Smalltalk and Eiffel are the only big players.  Any thoughts as to why this
is?

BTW, Ada did come up in a Java newsgroup in a discussion of financial
computing, fixed point, etc.  Its ability to interface with COBOL and its
built-in fixed-point capability were mentioned, and it was even pronounced
the best general-purpose language to date by one fellow (a very dangerous
thing to do in the Java world!).
Mike