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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.129.50.87 with SMTP id y84mr1890348ywy.48.1443133437265; Thu, 24 Sep 2015 15:23:57 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.182.148.40 with SMTP id tp8mr17140obb.37.1443133437189; Thu, 24 Sep 2015 15:23:57 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!feeder.erje.net!us.feeder.erje.net!newspeer1.nac.net!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!z77no4064303qge.1!news-out.google.com!z4ni1106ign.0!nntp.google.com!kq10no9088286igb.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 15:23:57 -0700 (PDT) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=99.237.214.147; posting-account=cUi90woAAADTaOISowbbHM8GUD0-opJO NNTP-Posting-Host: 99.237.214.147 User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: was Ada 83 in fact object oriented ? From: halfmaddad@gmail.com Injection-Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 22:23:57 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:27816 Date: 2015-09-24T15:23:57-07:00 List-Id: Hi Everyone Not a really important post here, I was just wondering what opinions people might have about something. OO is a huge topic but I am wondering what are the basic requirements for a language to be said to support object orientation. Ada 83 had packages and one package could be instantiated more then one time. Is it fair to say that basic class and methods were therefore supported? Do you have any examples of a language that just meets the threshold of being OO ? Thanks for reading-Patrick