Re: smalltalk vs. Ada

["Chris Campbell" <chris.danx@ntlworld.com>]

> > pass around pointers to everything.  Java is also a by-reference language,
> > but for half-baked reasons.
>
> In fact, it's "pure-OO, everything's an object claim" is itself only
> half-baked.

Maybe take a look at Self which going by the documentation is a pure OO language
from Sun that presumably was discontinued by Sun when they developed Java.  As
far as i can tell there is a JVM based compiler called JSelf and a few
Linux/Unix compilers.  Also there is agora and omega that are both described as
OO, but i'm not sure about the availability of compilers for those languages.
Self, Omega and Agora are prototype based OO languages which are different from
class based languages, and this might be worth investigating if you're used to
the standard (class based) OO.



Chris Campbell