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From: "Yeric" <NOSPAM@NOSPAM.com>
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Subject: Re: A couple of questions
Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 12:00:37 +0000 (UTC)
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> 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