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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,2c6139ce13be9980 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,2c6139ce13be9980 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,2c6139ce13be9980 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,3d3f20d31be1c33a X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,3d3f20d31be1c33a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,2c6139ce13be9980 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public From: jsa@alexandria.organon.com (Jon S Anthony) Subject: Re: Is ADA as good for graphics programming as C? Date: 1997/07/21 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 258030398 Distribution: world References: <5r089l$g1i$1@news2.digex.net> Followup-To: comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Organization: PSINet Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1997-07-21T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <5r089l$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 -- Jon Anthony OMI, Belmont, MA 02178 617.484.3383 "Nightmares - Ha! The way my life's been going lately, Who'd notice?" -- Londo Mollari