Re: Is the Writing on the Wall for Ada?

[Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com>]

Russ wrote:
> First of all, Java forces everything into the "object-oriented" mold
> whether it fits or not.

Not true. It's easy enough to make class methods be static, and then
you've got the equivalent of a package with variables and procedures,
if that's what you want. You can also declare your class methods to be
final and accomplish about the same thing. So there's no real forcing
of OOness.

> it has no separately compiled specification files

That can be programmed by using interfaces. Write your specifications
as interface classes, then write the implementations as implementing
the interfaces. Works fine.