Re: The A-Z of Programming Languages: Ada, interview with S. Tucker Taft

["Marc A. Criley" <mcNOSPAM@mckae.com>]

Ludovic Brenta wrote:
> Georg Bauhaus wrote:
>> Ludovic Brenta schrieb:
>>> http://www.techworld.com.au/article/223388/-z_programming_languages_ada?pp=1
>>>
>> Has Ichbiah been right to be skeptical of Ada 95's OO?
>> It does seem to have, uhm, rich structure, seen from a
>> learners point of view.
> 
> This prompts the question: how would Ichbiah have implemented OOP in
> Ada?

Perhaps barely, if at all.

I was at an Ada conference in the early 90s where Ichbiah was a keynote 
speaker, and talking about the Ada 9X revision process that was just 
then getting underway.

The only thing I clearly remember him stating in his presentation was 
that Ada 9X was not going to allow "any elephants in the tent".

And I think OOP, in the context of Ada 83, would certainly qualify as an 
elephant.  No matter how elegantly one might have conceived it.

Subsequent to that presentation, as Tucker mentioned in the interview, 
Ichbian left the revision effort.

Marc A. Criley
McKae Technologies