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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1e919d8673687b04 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96" Subject: Re: ADA and Pascal work, C,C++, Date: 1997/11/07 Message-ID: <97110709415835@psavax.pwfl.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 288224021 Sender: Ada programming language Comments: To: jstevens@samoyed.ftc.nrcs.usda.gov X-VMS-To: SMTP%"INFO-ADA@VM1.NODAK.EDU" X-VMS-Cc: SMTP%"jstevens@SAMOYED.FTC.NRCS.USDA.GOV",CONDIC Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-11-07T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: John Stevens 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 Marin David Condic, Senior Computer Engineer Voice: 561.796.8997 Pratt & Whitney GESP, M/S 731-96, P.O.B. 109600 Fax: 561.796.4669 West Palm Beach, FL, 33410-9600 Internet: CONDICMA@PWFL.COM =============================================================================== "Some people say a front-engine car handles best. Some people say a rear-engine car handles best. I say a rented car handles best." -- P. J. O'Rourke ===============================================================================