Re: XML DOM Binding for Ada 95 - matter of style

["Matthew Heaney" <matthewjheaney@earthlink.net>]

"Marin David Condic" <nobody@noplace.com> wrote in message
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> I see tagged types as the way to fully implement the Object Oriented
> paradigm in Ada.

To help convince you that inheritance-oriented programming is not the
solution to all problems, I suggest you read this interview with Stepanov:

http://www.stlport.org/resources/StepanovUSA.html

Here are the money quotes:

"I find OOP technically unsound. It attempts to decompose the world in terms
of interfaces that vary on a single type. To deal with the real problems you
need multisorted algebras - families of interfaces that span multiple types.
I find OOP philosophically unsound. It claims that everything is an object.
Even if it is true it is not very interesting - saying that everything is an
object is saying nothing at all. I find OOP methodologically wrong."

Asked what he thought of Java, he replied that "...It keeps all the stuff
that I never use in C++ - inheritance, virtuals - OO gook - and removes the
stuff that I find useful."

He says later that "...I spent years trying to find some use for inheritance
and virtuals, before I understood why that mechanism was fundamentally
flawed and should not be used."