PC/Ada assessment wanted

PC/Ada assessment wanted

[Lew Romney]

I'm thinking of developing apps with Ada on the PC.  Being of a slightly
pragmatic nature, I have a few queries/quibbles:

1) Integration with 80x86 assembly/externally compiled code in the
form of Microsoft OBJ files--how well?

2) Object-oriented features; I know Ada83 has inheritable packages,
will 9X have polymorphic packages with methode inheritance?

3) Support libraries esp. for window/mouse/pulldown menu user
interfaces and resource-related--are there any available?

ttyl, Lew.
lew.romney@thcave.bbs.no
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Re: PC/Ada assessment wanted

[Bob Duff]

In article <11643.323.uupcb@thcave.bbs.no>,
Lew Romney <lew.romney@thcave.bbs.no> wrote:
>2) Object-oriented features; I know Ada83 has inheritable packages,
>will 9X have polymorphic packages with methode inheritance?

Ada 94 has inheritance and polymorphism.  It's based on derived types,
not on "polymorphic packages".  You can declare a new record type that
inherits components from its parent (and something similar for private
types).  You can declare dispatching subprograms that dispatch according
to the type tag of the operand(s).
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Bob Duff                                bobduff@inmet.com
Oak Tree Software, Inc.
Ada 9X Mapping/Revision Team (Intermetrics, Inc.)