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From: Bob Wells #402 <wel@EUROCONTROL.DE>
Subject: Re: Is C/C++ the future?
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Date: 1994-10-13T16:41:38+01:00
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David Weller <dweller@STARBASE.NEOSOFT.COM> writes

> In article <CwLqrD.KDo@bocanews.bocaraton.ibm.com>,
> Bernie Thompson <bernie_thompson@bocaraton.ibm.com> wrote:
> >
> >VisualAge uses SOM as its underlying object binding method.
> >Taligent will provide SOM wrappers for its C++ classes.
> >
> >SOM is language-neutral.  Although ADA bindings havn't yet been
> >produced (to my knowledge), there is nothing to prevent it.
> >And that would mean Ada code could call/subclass/etc all of that
> >C++ code.
> >
> >The judgements here are that use of anything other than C++ would be
> >rejected by the marketplace.
> >
> Unless you're using Ada :-)
>
> This goes back to my discussion about following the market vs.
> creating the market.
>
> I'm in the "If you build it, they will come" category :-)

OK Dave, so how do we "ease his pain" and "go the distance?"

Bob W. (-: