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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: friend classes in ada95
Date: 2000/04/19
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In article <xAbL4.310$up5.205418@news-east.usenetserver.com>,
  "David Botton" <David@Botton.com> wrote:

> The first step is getting them to come over from other
> languages and/or to think of Ada as even a possibility. The
> lack of the _code_word_ "class" is a huge wall, and since the
> introduction of Java, the lack of direct support
> for at least MI with interfaces is another.

Anyone for whom this is a "huge wall" is very poorly educated
about programming and programming languages -- yes I agree
this applies to lots of people, but I must say I have no
trouble introducing Ada notions to a large segment of graduate
students. That's at least one step of data above a completely
unsupported claim like the above.

I am completely unconvinced by the MI claim ... again it seems
quite unsubstantiated to me.


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