From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_05 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 14 Sep 92 23:23:36 GMT From: walter!obry@uunet.uu.net (Pascal Obry) Subject: Re: Ada's (in)visibility in the engineering community Message-ID: List-Id: > Spoken like someone who has never done a major OO project. If you > think you can just sit down and write a major application in an OO > language "without conception", you are greatly mistaken. No, I don't think. But now they use C++ almost like C because they find a big problem to make a good conception. Because today a lot of peoples enjoy the OO-languages : it seem so simple, but like you said without conception it's impossible to do something good. And if the concept of OO-languages are 'quite simple' the conception is sometime *very difficult* ... Pascal. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Pascal OBRY -- -- Room 2D-337 e_mail : obry@bellcore.com -- -- Bellcore -- -- 445 South Street voice : 1 - 201 829 4039 -- -- Post Office Box 1910 -- -- Morristown, New Jersey 07962-1910 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- `` inheritance is surely a good answer, but who knows the question ? ''