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: 103376,b307bd75c8071241 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony) Subject: Re: Assuaging sour grapes :-) [was: newbie Q: storage management] Date: 1997/05/08 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 240115400 Distribution: world References: <5k5hif$7r5@bcrkh13.bnr.ca> <336A065B.41C6@magellan.bgm.link.com> <336E15A4.167E@magellan.bgm.link.com> <5knhge$mul@top.mitre.org> <336FDF8B.73AF@sprintmail.com> <52F0EC12E20AA44E.5796B5986C85CB4B.8C3BF60EE8ED6C1C@library-proxy.airnews.net> <33708E99.2186@sprintmail.com> Organization: PSI Public Usenet Link Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-05-08T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <33708E99.2186@sprintmail.com> "John G. Volan" writes: > How is Ada95 different here? It's not. > Isn't it possible to create DLL's from Ada95 source code, too? (For Yes. If it happens it must be possible... > instance, using Aonix ObjectAda?) Yes. > My question remains: What would "arrays of packages as first- or second- > class objects" give you? I have no idea... > It seems to me that there's nothing in C or C++ that makes it easier > to dynamically load different versions of the same package/class. That's because there isn't anything. > It's still an extra-linguistic mechanism: For statically typed languages, yes. > It requires configuration management mechanisms outside the > programming language level. In the OS loader, linker, ..., stuff. > Or am I still missing something...? I don't think so. /Jon -- Jon Anthony Organon Motives, Inc. Belmont, MA 02178 617.484.3383 jsa@organon.com