Re: C++ virtual function mechanism in Ada ?

[Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <3b600dd2.859745@news.cis.dfn.de>, Dmitry A. Kazakov says...
>It depends. I remember in my high school years [middle 80s], Ada 83
>was already well known. It was not taught [FORTRAN and PL1 were
.
>discussed. In contrary to this, C was completely unknown [happy life

Here in the US, I had friends using C around 83 or so (when I was in high
school). I think I'd first heard about it about a year before that.

Admittedly, C++ was completely below my radar until about 1994. At the time, I
seem to remember everyone talking like it was some brand new thing that was
still being worked on. It certianly wasn't standardized yet, and Ada was already
nearly done with the second version of its standard. Don't get me wrong: It is
good to have the *facts* laid out, where someone had them wrong. But I think
those of us who took all that talk at face value can be forgiven for the
mistake.

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