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From: "Alex Gibson" <alxx@ihug.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Is the Writing on the Wall for Ada?
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"Jerry van Dijk" <somename@nospam.demon.nl> wrote in message =
news:m2k78k8ybr.fsf@jvdsys.demon.nl...
> Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> writes:
>=20
> > David Marceau wrote:
> > > Interfaces are the way to separating the differences between =
versions of
> > > components.
> >=20
> > That is a very interesting point of view. Oh wait, no it isn't. It's =
just a
> > wrong point of view. The way interfaces are used in Java, and in C++
>=20
> I think there is overloading problem here, it seems to me that David =
is
> talking about COM interfaces, and Hyman about language interfaces.
>=20
> BTW only yesterday I was reading on Slashdot about how Java was now a =
dead
> language (on desktop and server, I presume) because of its slow
> development, .NET is what everyone should be using... Mmmmm, anyone =
for Web
> enabled traffic control ? :-)

Sure you don't mean web enabled electricity network control ?
Or using windows 2000 to run nuclear power plants ?