From: Chris Morgan <mihalis@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Where's Ada95 when OO languages are discussed?
Date: 1999/03/23
Date: 1999-03-23T18:28:23-06:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87emmfpw3t.fsf@mihalis.ix.netcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 36F7F02E.BC57F7CB@aasaa.ofe.org
David Starner <dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org> writes:
> 1. Ada doesn't get much respect. By many people, it's considered a
> overgrown monstrosity built by commitee. I also get the impression it's
> not used for much mainstream stuff. Smalltalk has history, and C++, Java
> and Eiffel are the new showoffs.
When you talk abot history and showoffs, do you ever check your facts
first? Ada's installed base is much larger than Eiffel and Ada
certainly has history too (hint, C++ was designed with some nods
towards Ada83). Finally, neither version was designed by committee.
Chris
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-03-23 0:00 Where's Ada95 when OO languages are discussed? Mike Silva
1999-03-23 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-03-23 0:00 ` fred
1999-03-23 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-03-23 0:00 ` Chris Morgan [this message]
1999-03-23 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-03-23 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-23 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-03-23 0:00 ` Kevin
1999-03-26 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-03-24 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-27 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-03-28 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-24 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1999-03-24 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-24 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-24 0:00 ` SpamSpamSpam
1999-03-24 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-24 0:00 ` John McCabe
1999-03-30 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1999-03-30 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-30 0:00 ` bglbv
1999-03-30 0:00 ` dennison
1999-03-31 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-04-13 0:00 ` John McCabe
1999-03-30 0:00 ` dennison
1999-03-30 0:00 ` Mike Harrison
1999-04-13 0:00 ` John McCabe
1999-03-24 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1999-03-25 0:00 ` SpamSpamSpam
1999-03-25 0:00 ` Bob Munck
1999-03-25 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
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