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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE 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: 1994-10-15 19:38:27 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!demos1!glas!demos1!hawnews.watson.ibm.c!watson.ibm.com!jjb From: jjb@watson.ibm.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 14 Oct 94 22:11 GMT+0300 Subject: Re: Is C/C++ the future? Message-ID: References: Sender: Notesfile to Usenet Gateway Date: 1994-10-14T22:11:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , beckwb@ois.com (R. William Beckwith) writes: |> Bernie Thompson (bernie_thompson@bocaraton.ibm.com) wrote: |> : 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. |> |> 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. Hmm...I thought CORBA IDL was going to make all OO languages work together. Then the new OO world would be divided into Microsoft OLE and CORBA, not into SmallTalk, C++ and Ada, etc. By the way, how's the Ada/OLE binding coming along? |> |> : Bernie |> |> ... Bill |> |> -- |> e-mail: Bill.Beckwith@ois.com | Team Ada |> Objective Interface Systems, Inc. | dist, full O-O |> 1895 Preston White Drive, Suite 250 | multithreading |> Reston, VA 22091-5448 U.S.A. | built in -- John. John J. Barton jjb@watson.ibm.com (914)784-6645 H1-C13 IBM Watson Research Center P.O. Box 704 Hawthorne NY 10598