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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@no_spam.btopenworld.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.object,comp.lang.ada,misc.misc
Subject: Re: Using Ada for device drivers? (Was: the Ada mandate,
 and why it collapsed and died)
Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 13:14:28 +0000 (UTC)
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"soft-eng" <softeng3456@netscape.net> wrote in message
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> > Hardly.  Stroustrup took type safety in C++ from Simula 67, which
actually
> > predated PASCAL.
>
> The Object Oriented architecture came from Simula 67 (I
> am sure he must have been influenced by Smalltalk et al too.)

Well, I doubt Alan Kay would agree with you "I invented the
term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind."