Re: Is C/C++ the future?

[beckwb@ois.com (R. William Beckwith)]

Bernie Thompson (bernie_thompson@bocaraton.ibm.com) wrote:
: In <CwLAx0.GxJ@world.std.com>, 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.

OIS and MITRE have written an IDL to Ada 95 mapping document.  Someone
_is_ working on a SOM/Ada 95 product.  Talk to oec@ocsystems.com.

: The judgements here are that use of anything other than C++ would be
: rejected by the marketplace.

You guys are going to miss the boat with this kind of thinking.
Watch out.  Your competition thinks Ada is a crucial technology
and market.  You've been warned.

: Bernie

... Bill

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