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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Limitations of Ada
Date: 1996/07/30
Date: 1996-07-30T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.838767052@schonberg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4tlpfa$cr9@bagan.srce.hr


Kazimir commented on alledged limitations of Ada

1) Not 100 % OO, see Smalltalk

    Shrug, this is more of a religeous comment than a technical one!

2) Without distributed objects, see Modula-3

    This is wrong, read annex E

3) Lack of MACROS, see C++

    This is an intentional part of the design, see Steelman

4) Small number of operators to overload, see  C++

    Incomprehensible, all operators and subprograms are overloadable in Ada

5) Lack of multiple inheritance, see C++

    Not necessarily a lack at all, see Tucker Taft's paper

6) Big language, see BASIC

    More of a comment, than a limitation. After all you could equally say
    that it is a limitation of BASIC that it is a small language.





  reply	other threads:[~1996-07-30  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1996-07-29  0:00 Limitations of Ada Marin David Condic, 407.796.8997, M/S 731-93
1996-07-30  0:00 ` Kazimir Majorinc
1996-07-30  0:00   ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1996-07-30  0:00   ` Brian Rogoff
1996-07-31  0:00   ` Brian Rogoff
1996-07-31  0:00   ` Fraser Wilson
1996-07-31  0:00   ` Robert A Duff
1996-08-01  0:00   ` Bob Kitzberger
1996-08-02  0:00     ` Jack W Scheible
1996-08-02  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1996-08-03  0:00       ` Keith Thompson
1996-08-05  0:00         ` Jack W Scheible
1996-08-01  0:00   ` Spasmo
1996-08-08  0:00     ` mpost
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1996-07-19  0:00 The Quelisher
1996-07-20  0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-07-21  0:00 ` Nasser Abbasi
1996-07-23  0:00   ` Bob Munck
1996-07-24  0:00     ` David Kristola
1996-07-24  0:00       ` Ron Thompson
1996-07-26  0:00         ` Ken Garlington
1996-07-29  0:00           ` Byron B. Kauffman
1996-07-25  0:00     ` Keith Thompson
1996-07-29  0:00     ` David Weller
1996-07-22  0:00 ` Klaus Wyss
1996-07-23  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-24  0:00     ` David Emery
1996-07-30  0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
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