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From: chris@nospam
Subject: Re: Ada OO Mechanism
Date: 1999/05/30
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Date: 1999-05-30T00:00:00+00:00
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Today I saw a book on modula-3.

I think Ada OO should have been designed as modula-3 OO is.

In Modula-3, you have a modula, which is same as an Ada package.
but also, you have what is called an OBJECT, (which looked
like a RECORD), which contains DATA part, and METHODS part.

Inside a modula, you can declare an OBJECT.

So, here we have a language, which I thought was very similar to 
Ada, but used the familiar class like construct for the OO type.

I have no idea why Ada did not do it the same way. I wonder if when
Ada95 OO was designed, if modula-3 was around?

I liked the way modula-3 did it. I think I am going to learn more
about that language. Too bad it is not a very much used language.

chris.