From: jsa@alexandria.organon.com (Jon S Anthony)
Subject: Re: Is ADA as good for graphics programming as C?
Date: 1997/07/21
Date: 1997-07-21T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <JSA.97Jul21164818@alexandria.organon.com> (raw)
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In article <5r089l$g1i$1@news2.digex.net> ell@access5.digex.net (Ell) writes:
> Jon S Anthony (jsa@alexandria.organon.com) wrote:
...
> : This is _not_ in any way shape or form anything like the sort of
> : "inheritance" codified and directly expressed in typical OOPLs. What
> : you mention above is "genealogy style inheritance". So, while there
> : is definitely truth in what you say, it is irrelevant to the topic at
> : hand.
>
> I do not see how it's so different.
Somehow I don't find that surprising...
> One class inheriting from another is actually one generalization
> being inherited from another. In biology it's not ideas that are
> inherited, but genes. The notion of passing on is common to both
> forms of inheritance.
The semantics of the information "transfer" and even what is
"transfered are totally different.
/Jon
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1997-07-21 0:00 Is ADA as good for graphics programming as C? Ell
1997-07-21 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony [this message]
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1997-07-21 0:00 Ell
1997-07-15 0:00 Is ADA as good for graphics programming as C? (WAS: Re: Avoiding the second historic mistake) Matthew Heaney
1997-07-16 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1997-07-17 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
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1997-07-20 0:00 ` Is ADA as good for graphics programming as C? Matthew Heaney
1997-07-21 0:00 ` Dennis Weldy
1997-07-21 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
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