From: "Marin David Condic, 407.796.8997, M/S 731-93" <condicma@PWFL.COM>
Subject: Re: Ada versus PL/I (was: Re: Ariane 5 - not an exception?)
Date: 1996/09/04
Date: 1996-09-04T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <96090415434701@psavax.pwfl.com> (raw)
++ robin <rav@GOANNA.CS.RMIT.EDU.AU> writes:
> >> > On the other hand, I would rather see people using PL/I for
> >> > a serious project than C. And I have heard there is an effo
> >> > to release an Object-oriented version of PL/I in the near
> >> > future. That might actually make PL/I a viable alternative
> >> > to C++.
> >>
> >> ---It already is.
>
> > Not unless if does not explicitly support object-oriented
> > programming. And OOP kludges do not count.
>
>---we'll have to agree to disagree on that.
>
If by this you mean that PL/I is alread a viable alternative to
C++, you may be right. If you mean that OOP can be done in PL/I
without the usual requisite encapsulation, polymorphism,
inheritance, and other popular buzzwords and that this makes PL/I
"object oriented" then there's a problem: By that standard, you
could call an assembly language "object oriented" - in which case
the term doesn't mean much.
Object Oriented Programming can be done in any language - this is
true. But that hardly makes PL/I (or Basic, or assembly language,
or whatever) a good, or even adequate choice in which to do so.
Heck! Even Ada83 was a pretty weak choice for OOP given that you
had to pull some pretty ugly stunts to get some of those buzzwords
to work as intended.
MDC
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1996-09-04 0:00 Marin David Condic, 407.796.8997, M/S 731-93 [this message]
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1996-09-05 0:00 Ada versus PL/I (was: Re: Ariane 5 - not an exception?) Marin David Condic, 407.796.8997, M/S 731-93
1996-09-04 0:00 Marin David Condic, 407.796.8997, M/S 731-93
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-07-25 0:00 Ariane 5 - not an exception? Simon Bluck
1996-07-25 0:00 ` Multiple reasons for failure of Ariane 5 (was: Re: Ariane 5 - not an exception?) Kirk Beitz
1996-07-26 0:00 ` ++ robin
1996-08-05 0:00 ` Darren C Davenport
1996-08-06 0:00 ` U32872
1996-08-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-08-08 0:00 ` Pascal Martin @lone
1996-08-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-08-10 0:00 ` dwnoon
1996-08-15 0:00 ` Richard Riehle
1996-08-22 0:00 ` ++ robin
1996-08-31 0:00 ` Ada versus PL/I " Richard Riehle
1996-09-02 0:00 ` ++ robin
1996-09-02 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-09-03 0:00 ` ++ robin
1996-09-03 0:00 ` Robb Nebbe
1996-09-17 0:00 ` shmuel
1996-09-17 0:00 ` Jay McFadyen
1996-09-18 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-09-20 0:00 ` shmuel
1996-09-03 0:00 ` ++ robin
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-07 0:00 ` ++ robin
1996-09-03 0:00 ` J. Kanze
1996-09-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-09 0:00 ` ++ robin
1996-09-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-09 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
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