Re: procedural vs object oriented

[Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>]

"bh" <no-spam@nosuchaddress.com> writes:
> "Ananth the Boss" <anboss@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1146039364.130635.181590@v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com...
>> i am working in Ada based flight software development project.as a
>> means of improving i took to the CASE tool based development.ours is a
>> procedural approach of development.but the commercial CASE tools speak
>> a lot about class/object/UML.how will this suit for procedure oriented
>> development where we dont have necessity to identify classes and do
>> detailed design as mentioned in OO aproach
>>
>
> If you don't _know_ how to do good OO with Ada, I'd recommend against it.
> We tried a project using OO and I think it is pretty safe to say we didn't
> get what we were hoping for. I think your results will be better with
> procedural.

According to Robert Dewar during FOSDEM, nobody uses OOP in avionics
software, because the uncertainty inherent to dynamic dispatching
hinders certification.  Is someone on this newsgroup in a position to
give a counter-example?

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.