From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,9982360189bfe852 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-02-02 14:46:58 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-01!supernews.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.isc.org!news.gnac.net!uunet!sac.uu.net!usenet.rational.com!not-for-mail From: "Mark Lundquist" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Which book for ADA beginner ? Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 13:58:06 -0800 Organization: Rational Software Message-ID: <95fbiv$nen$5@usenet.rational.com> References: <3A71400E.32057C6B@becker.k.pl> <3a72224b_2@news3.prserv.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: ext-3074.rational.com X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:4886 Date: 2001-02-02T13:58:06-08:00 List-Id: Brian Rogoff wrote in message news:Pine.BSF.4.21.0101281019400.7734-100000@shell5.ba.best.com... > I can't speak for Andrzej, but I did notice on perusing the programs at > the web site > > http://www.brighton.ac.uk/ada95/programs/home.htm > > that Smith tends to use packages as classes. Is that the style where the package is named after the abstraction, and then all types get the name "Object"? (I'm offline right now, so I can't see for myself :-) I find that style really distasteful and contrived and bizarre, definitely not "thinking in Ada", and I think the enslavement of ones thinking to class-oriented programming is unproductive. But that's just me... :-) -- mark