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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b0d569080889afd6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dale@cs.rmit.edu.au (Dale Stanbrough) Subject: Re: A question for my personal knowledge. Date: 1999/05/14 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 477665527 References: <1VEZ2.1515$I51.88140@carnaval.risq.qc.ca> <37372A84.641F2133@bigfoot.com> <7h8oe8$2js$1@cf01.edf.fr> <37382B0C.A95B6745@bigfoot.com> <7h9o21$9v4$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <7h9pei$aut$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <373AC668.4824FF07@decada.enet.dec.com> <7hfctj$1kb4@drn.newsguy.com> <7hfp1n$28tr@drn.newsguy.com> X-Complaints-To: abuse@cs.rmit.edu.au X-Trace: emu.cs.rmit.edu.au 926651364 12414 144.205.16.58 (14 May 1999 03:09:24 GMT) Organization: RMIT NNTP-Posting-Date: 14 May 1999 03:09:24 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-05-14T03:09:24+00:00 List-Id: Mike wrote: " In Ada, you still use function calls and pass tagged records as parameters. in real OO, you invoke methods on objects." Hang on, I could write a program that does a _simple_ transformation to change the "real OO" syntax to Ada's current syntax (or vice versa). This must mean that "real OO" is _only_ syntax And I thought that OO was about semantics! The solution to solving this argument is for you to supply a list of features that you think "real OO" _must_ have, and for you to tick them off against Ada. No doubt your list will have "must have a particular syntax" and you will therefore prove that Ada doesn't fit the bill. That's fair enough, you can call anything by any name that you choose. The question that we will all be left with is does anyone agree with you, or does anyone care. Dale