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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 X-Google-Thread: 103376,1592759aa83d0d45 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-05-30 05:20:26 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!cyclone.bc.net!news-hub.siol.net!news.siol.net!not-for-mail From: Karel Miklav User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: MI in Ada 200X References: <0Pxza.699607$OV.652508@rwcrnsc54> <4a4de33a.0305280557.5d5aba37@posting.google.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 14:20:25 +0200 NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.77.153.232 X-Complaints-To: abuse@siol.net X-Trace: news.siol.net 1054297223 193.77.153.232 (Fri, 30 May 2003 14:20:23 MET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 14:20:23 MET DST Organization: Slovenija OnLine - SiOL Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:38084 Date: 2003-05-30T14:20:25+02:00 List-Id: Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: > Wesley Groleau wrote: >>>>Mário Amado Alves wrote: >>>> >>>>>Everybody wants class MI. The reasons it was left out of Ada 95 and >> >>I don't! > > OK. Bill Gates once said that nobody would need more than 64K RAM. Or was it > 640K? I do not remember. Anyway, never say never. (:-)) I don't see how this is related to MI. What do you think about the diamond problem and other evils of MI? Besides, where do or would you use this feature? MI might look like a good idea in a simple project, but when things start to get messy and you're caught into inheritance net, you can forget who your own mother is :) I vote NO for MI and other inventions of marketing departments but YES for interfaces. Regards, Karel Miklav