From: Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com>
Subject: Re: Standadised OO Language
Date: 1998/02/12
Date: 1998-02-12T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980212094158.17215A-100000@shell5.ba.best.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6bv2h8$stl@universe.digex.net
On 12 Feb 1998, David Weller wrote:
> In article <6bur94$k8n$1@news3.alpha.net>,
> Kenneth W. Sodemann <stufflehead@bigfoot.com> wrote:
> >Matthew Daniel wrote in message <34E2D3D9.B2F1F398@adelaide.on.net>...
> >>After Having a "discussion" with one of the engineers at work, he is an
> >>Ada "hater" and I am the Ada "lover", about standadised OO languages, I
> >>said Ada95 was the only one, well at least 6 months ago, he said C++ has
> >>an ANSI standard and has for a couple of years.
> >>
> >You are wrong, and so is your friend. C++ does have an ANSI standard,
> >however it was only ratified within the last couple of months (the first
> >announcement I saw of it was in last months "C/C++ Users Journal").
> >
> >I would also be surprised if some other OO language (like Smalltalk) were
> >not standardized, but I cannot speak to that, as the two main languages I
> >work with are Ada and C++.
> >
>
> Get ready to be surprised. :-)
As should you. Common Lisp is an ANSI standard, and that includes CLOS,
arguably the most "powerful" object system out there in a standard
language. If it didn't beat Ada to the "standard OO language" finish
line, it was close.
You're right about C++ though, the Draft ISO standard was only very
recently ratified.
> I remember laughing when C++ people were saying it'd be standardized
> by 1994. :-)
Do I detect a little schadenfreude there David? :-)
-- Brian
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-02-12 0:00 Standadised OO Language Matthew Daniel
1998-02-12 0:00 ` Mark Bennison
1998-02-12 0:00 ` Standardized " Markus Kuhn
1998-02-13 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1998-02-13 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1998-02-17 0:00 ` Terry Devine
1998-02-12 0:00 ` Standadised " Kenneth W. Sodemann
1998-02-12 0:00 ` David Weller
1998-02-12 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff [this message]
1998-02-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-02-12 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1998-02-13 0:00 ` Kenneth W. Sodemann
1998-02-13 0:00 ` William Clodius
1998-02-13 0:00 ` Howard W. LUDWIG
1998-02-13 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-02-15 0:00 ` Dennis Reimer
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1998-02-14 0:00 Marc Wachowitz
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