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: 103376,53c7a24d13241b98 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Brian Rogoff Subject: Re: Standadised OO Language Date: 1998/02/12 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 324496181 References: <34E2D3D9.B2F1F398@adelaide.on.net> <6bur94$k8n$1@news3.alpha.net> <6bv2h8$stl@universe.digex.net> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: 887305846 2566 bpr 206.184.139.132 Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-02-12T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On 12 Feb 1998, David Weller wrote: > In article <6bur94$k8n$1@news3.alpha.net>, > Kenneth W. Sodemann 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