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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
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Subject: Re: Parameter Modes, In In Out and Out
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In article <93nshs$400$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  mark_lundquist@my-deja.com wrote:

> In some ways I prefer the term "abstraction-oriented
> programming", because the term "OOP" has become so muddled.

Well I think the notion of OOP *should* be clear enough, but
many people use the term to refer to abstraction-oriented
programming, which is of course a far more extensive concept.
Similarly, for a lot of programmers, an object and an abstract
data type are equivalent concepts.

I think it was a right decision in the Ada design to avoid
giving too much of a distinuished position to OOP as such,
since it is only one tool in the kit of the
abstraction-oriented programmer.


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