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From: "Yeric" <NOSPAM@NOSPAM.com>
Subject: Re: A couple of questions
Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 12:00:37 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2004-05-02T12:00:37+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c72nt5$esq$1@titan.btinternet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: opr7chaxkd5afhvo@news.verizon.net

> And yes, I think Bertrand Meyer has acknowledged the influence of Ada on
> his language design.

Yes they are similar :)

>
> Would have been interesting to see how the current Ada standard measures
> up in Ian Joyner's "Objects Unencapsulated", don't you think?

I have not read this book, but it is also interesting to see that Ada is not
compared with languages such as C++ Java Smalltalk like Eiffel is.

Reading more about Ada, I am seeing that Ada is a practical language,
allowing the programmer to make his/her informed decisions on how to
implement code.

I like this idea, I am in no way rubbishing OOP, OOP makes sense for most
programming and is indeed a more natural way of programming, however there
are times when defining a class to perform the simplest of things can be
overkill IMHO.

Eiffel does not allow any orphan functions/features or variables to exist,
everything is wrapped in classes, true OO.

Yeric





  reply	other threads:[~2004-05-02 12:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-01  1:00 A couple of questions Yeric
2004-05-01  5:12 ` James Rogers
2004-05-01  9:56 ` Martin Krischik
2004-05-01 15:12 ` Yeric
2004-05-01 15:37   ` Ed Falis
2004-05-02 16:48     ` Martin Krischik
2004-05-02 22:39       ` Jeff C,
2004-05-03  7:10         ` Martin Krischik
2004-05-03 19:11           ` Hyman Rosen
2004-05-04  6:45             ` Martin Krischik
2004-05-01 16:04   ` Ludovic Brenta
2004-05-01 17:47   ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2004-05-02  0:13   ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-05-02  1:00   ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-05-01 18:53     ` Yeric
2004-05-01 20:16       ` Ludovic Brenta
2004-05-01 22:25         ` Yeric
2004-05-01 23:38           ` Ed Falis
2004-05-02 12:00             ` Yeric [this message]
2004-05-02 13:29               ` Ed Falis
2004-05-02 21:44               ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-05-02  4:18       ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-05-02  8:55       ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-05-02 10:48         ` Martin Dowie
2004-05-02 11:30           ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-05-02 15:30       ` Pascal Obry
2004-05-01 18:56 ` Marius Amado Alves
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2004-05-02  1:53 Marius Amado Alves
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