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From: thomas@cuivre.fr.eu.org (Thomas Quinot)
Subject: Re: take the 20 second lang. survey
Date: 1999/08/14
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Date: 1999-08-14T00:00:00+00:00
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Dans comp.lang.ada, Peter da Silva �crit :

>Ada is object oriented? I know it has operator overloading, but that's only
>a small part of OO.

Operator overloading has little to do with OO. The key mechanisms
that are useful to support the OO programming model in a language
are encapsulation (the association of a data type and its operation
in a language construct), inheritance and run-time polymorphism.
Yes, Ada 95 has all of these.

Thomas.

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