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From: Richard D Riehle <laoXhai@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Help me to chose between ADA 95 and C++
Date: 1999/12/04
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In article <B46461D2.259F%Harald.Schmidt@tomcat.de>,
	Harald Schmidt <Harald.Schmidt@tomcat.de> wrote:

>....if you want to learn a serious OO language
>why not using Smalltalk, everything is an object,
>no friend functions, no abstract datatypes ;-)

Figure I might as well stir things up a little bit again.

Smalltalk is certainly a nicely designed language. However,
if one is serious about object-oriented programming, 
Ada is an excellent choice. The only appropriate alternative
to Ada, for serious OOP, is probably Eiffel.   

Richard Riehle
http://www.adaworks.com