From: mcc@entropy.cs.princeton.edu (Martin C. Carlisle)
Subject: Re: A question for my personal knowledge.
Date: 1999/05/13
Date: 1999-05-13T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7hfghh$3hl$1@cnn.Princeton.EDU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7hfctj$1kb4@drn.newsguy.com
In article <7hfctj$1kb4@drn.newsguy.com>, Mike <Mike@newsguy.com> wrote:
>In article <373AC668.4824FF07@decada.enet.dec.com>, Mike says...
>
>>If I were to teach programming today, I'd choose Ada 95 as the vehicle.
>>It is a serious detriment to pedagogy (and to programming!) to muddle
>>together the vehicle of polymorphism and the vehicle of abstraction as
>
>Ada OO mechanism is not simple and I find it confusing. a class is the
>most basic concept in OO, and Ada does not have it. No wonder all heavely
>used OO languages today use the class concept (C++, Java) even Simula
>the original OO language used a class to represent objects with. All except
>Ada does it different.
Of course Ada has a class-- it's called a tagged record. It has attributes
and methods (which must be declared together with it). The original poster
merely points out that you can select whether to have multiple classes
together in the same abstraction.
--Martin
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1999-05-10 0:00 A question for my personal knowledge Siamak Kaveh
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Sam
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-05-12 0:00 ` Charlie McCutcheon
1999-05-12 0:00 ` Werner Pachler
1999-05-17 0:00 ` Charlie McCutcheon
1999-05-17 0:00 ` bglbv
1999-05-17 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-05-18 0:00 ` bglbv
1999-05-19 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Dan Nagle
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Paul Whittington
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Roy Grimm
1999-05-11 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1999-05-11 0:00 ` Roy Grimm
1999-05-11 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-05-11 0:00 ` Roy Grimm
1999-05-11 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-05-11 0:00 ` Roy Grimm
1999-05-12 0:00 ` Roger Racine
1999-05-12 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-05-17 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-05-18 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-05-18 0:00 ` bglbv
1999-05-18 0:00 ` William B. Clodius
1999-05-17 0:00 ` Charlie McCutcheon
1999-05-17 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-05-17 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-05-17 0:00 ` Chris
1999-05-17 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-05-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-11 0:00 ` Roy Grimm
1999-05-12 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-05-11 0:00 ` dennison
1999-05-13 0:00 ` Mike Yoder
1999-05-13 0:00 ` Mike
1999-05-13 0:00 ` Martin C. Carlisle [this message]
1999-05-14 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1999-05-13 0:00 ` Mike
1999-05-13 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-05-13 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-05-18 0:00 ` Georg Bauhaus
1999-05-14 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
1999-05-14 0:00 ` Steve
1999-05-15 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
1999-05-15 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-05-14 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1999-05-15 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-05-18 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-05-18 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
1999-05-18 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-05-18 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
1999-05-19 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-05-11 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-05-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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