From: "Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96" <condicma@PWFL.COM>
Subject: Re: ADA and Pascal work, C,C++,
Date: 1997/11/07
Date: 1997-11-07T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <97110709415835@psavax.pwfl.com> (raw)
John Stevens <jstevens@SAMOYED.FTC.NRCS.USDA.GOV> writes:
>
>The one huge advantage C++ has over Ada, is that C++ is at least
>semi-object oriented. Ada isn't.
>
This is not entirely accurate. I know that C++ was invented in the
early days of OOP as a means of expressing OOConcepts. But I am
not terribly familiar with it, so I can't attest to how purely it
implements OO. However, Ada is *very* object oriented, supporting
all of the major aspects of OOP. It may not *force* this paradigm
on all programs (you can still write Adatran if you like) as some
languages do, but if you understand OO and want to develop that
way, all the features you need are there.
Ada83 did not have all of the OOFeatures that would qualify it to
be OO, but it pre-dated the invention of that paradigm. (It also
contributed to the development of the concept with many of its new
features.) Ada95, OTOH, learned a lot from C++ et alia and is, in
fact, fully OO.
MDC
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