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Subject: Re: If not Ada, what else...
From: David Botton <david@botton.com>
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>    abstract class type A is
>       procedure P1 (This : in out T) is abstract;
>    end A;
> 
>    class type T is new A with
>       overriding procedure P1 (This : in out A);
>       not overriding function F1 (This : A) return Integer;
>    private
>       V : Integer;
>    end T;
> 
> etc etc; not a million miles from Ada as we know it.

Things would have been so different had Ada not missed its window of opportunity with a syntax more familiar to developers and investments in bindings and interfaces been made.

David Botton