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-Thread: 103376,6e045a5e739e2c80 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Received: by 10.68.238.198 with SMTP id vm6mr7170391pbc.3.1329500016623; Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:33:36 -0800 (PST) Path: wr5ni36460pbc.0!nntp.google.com!news1.google.com!news3.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Bill Findlay Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Fun with History:=?ISO-8859-1?B?oLNXaHk=?= wasn't Ada83 object =?ISO-8859-1?B?b3JpZW50ZWQ/sg==?= Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:33:35 +0000 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: individual.net Kixm/Fdyp9TgMi8SJz3h3ApCsDFVWHCazgNqpXcklS+tk+u147 Cancel-Lock: sha1:X/c4E1oSKw1zzDCBQa7HGFp7bag= User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/12.28.0.101117 Thread-Topic: Fun with History:=?ISO-8859-1?B?oLNXaHk=?= wasn't Ada83 object =?ISO-8859-1?B?b3JpZW50ZWQ/sg==?= Thread-Index: AcztmkZ5tbKRoDvAREWDdgX5Fqixfg== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: 2012-02-17T17:33:35+00:00 List-Id: On 17/02/2012 17:22, in article op.v9t2jgpmule2fv@douda-yannick, "Yannick Duch�ne (Hibou57)" wrote: > Funny paper I�ve never read before. In the middle of the page (the link > follows) you read: > >> Why wasn't Ada83 object oriented? It depends on who you ask. >> According to Bertrand Meyer (peut-etre il a parle a Jean?), Jean >> �who had been writing Simula compilers, and was thus familiar with >> the paradigm� thought that dynamic binding would have been too >> radical for the conservative DoD, who after all were the ones >> commissioning the language, and so he figured they wouldn't go for >> it. According to others, Jean in fact didn't want type extension and >> dynamic binding, because he didn't think it was necessary. > > Quoted from: > http://www.adapower.com/index.php?Command=Class&ClassID=Advocacy&CID=39 What an excellent discussion that is. I'd add a further reason for Ada's unpopularity: the mere fact that it was sponsored by the DoD was enough to turn the infantile left of academe against it, so it was not taught. I know this from personal experience. -- Bill Findlay with blueyonder.co.uk; use surname & forename;