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From: "Chad R. Meiners" <crmeiners@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: OOD in Ada?
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 15:26:32 -0400
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"Dr. Michael Paus" <paus@ib-paus.com> wrote in message
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> This is indeed one of the more serious problems. Many people in this group
> will argue that technically it does not make any difference whether you
have
> a "dot" notation or not and this is probably right. But from the point of
> readability it is a big difference. This may of course be just a matter of
> taste but in my daily work I have met a lot of people who have real
difficulties
> to understand what this OO stuff is all about. I think it is much easier
to
> explain and understand in a language like Java than it is in Ada.

I would argue that Ada's method is better since it requires you to
understand typing systems.  The dot notation however is very good at
allowing people think that they understand what OOP is (it's when you use
the dot notation, right? ;-).

-CRM