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=0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,80e8e0df8032d89e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-09-24 04:47:23 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!news.dell.com!tadpole.com!uunet!newsgate.watson.ibm.com!watnews.watson.ibm.com!bocanews.bocaraton.ibm.com!news From: bernie_thompson@bocaraton.ibm.com (Bernie Thompson) Subject: Re: Is C/C++ the future? Sender: news@bocanews.bocaraton.ibm.com (News Admin ID) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 23 Sep 1994 21:38:01 GMT Reply-To: bernie_thompson@bocaraton.ibm.com (Bernie Thompson) References: Nntp-Posting-Host: bernie.bocaraton.ibm.com Organization: IBM OS/2 Development X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.02 Date: 1994-09-23T21:38:01+00:00 List-Id: In , srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian) writes: > As an example of what Lucky is referring to, Taligent (an IBM/Apple/HP joint >effort) is releasing this summer a developer release of the TAE (Taligent >Application Environment) - a collection of 100 frameworks, comprising over >2000 C++ classes and over 30,000 member functions, and who knows how many >million lines of C++ code. > Convert? Certainly not any customer of TeamAda member IBM. IBM's future >OO plans will be based on its' VisualAge and VisualGen. >Greg Aharonian VisualAge uses SOM as its underlying object binding method. Taligent will provide SOM wrappers for its C++ classes. SOM is language-neutral. Although ADA bindings havn't yet been produced (to my knowledge), there is nothing to prevent it. And that would mean Ada code could call/subclass/etc all of that C++ code. The judgements here are that use of anything other than C++ would be rejected by the marketplace. Bernie