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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: Preventing type extensions
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 20:37:51 +0200
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* Pascal Obry:

> Ludovic,
>
>> And people not knowing Ada and thinking that the only OO language was
>> C++.  I totally agree with Jean-Pierre that Ada has made a very
>> important contribution to OO technology in distinguishing class-wide
>> from specific types; 
>
> Well this was part of Smalltalk since the beginning. Not sure Ada has
> invented anything there :)

Smalltalk has compile-time types?  I don't think so.