Re: Separate Compilation in Programming Languages

[Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)]

In article <FJDvj.10151$0o7.9092@newssvr13.news.prodigy.net>, <adaworks@sbcglobal.net> writes:
> Recently, I have been engaged in some conversations with colleagues about the 
> value of
> separate compilation.    This is one of my favorite features in Ada.   In fact, 
> as nearly as
> I can tell, none of the other popular languages includes this feature in as 
> well-developed
> a form as Ada.   Java has no separate compilation at all.  Nor does Eiffel. 
> C++ has a
> rather kludgy form that is sometimes worse than none at all.    Modula includes 
> a form
> of separate compilation, but requires opaque types.    Older languages such as 
> PL/I,
> COBOL, and Fortran are pretty useless in this respect.

VMS Pascal has support for separate compilation, with data types
coming from one or more common source files and correspondence
between compilations checked at link time.

I do not know how many of those features come from the latest Pascal
Standard.