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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,84f721148b16bb3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!proxad.net!feeder1-1.proxad.net!oleane.net!oleane!hunter.axlog.fr!nobody From: Jean-Pierre Rosen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: The A-Z of Programming Languages: Ada, interview with S. Tucker Taft Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:13:59 +0200 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: References: <910cef1d-2ba2-4130-8f1f-2ce192756cfa@d77g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> <4846a33e$0$27453$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net> <2f24888f-35fc-4b7d-b188-d121d950063d@b1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> <4847f10d$0$6543$9b4e6d93@newsspool3.arcor-online.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhost.axlog.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: s1.news.oleane.net 1212674727 16493 195.25.228.57 (5 Jun 2008 14:05:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@oleane.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 14:05:27 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) In-Reply-To: <4847f10d$0$6543$9b4e6d93@newsspool3.arcor-online.net> Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:580 Date: 2008-06-05T16:13:59+02:00 List-Id: Georg Bauhaus a �crit : > IIUC what Taft says in the interview, Ichbiah didn't like the > _way_ OOP was to be implemented. OTOH he had been working on a > Simula compiler at INRIA. So maybe OOP alone was not the elephant. > Certainly. Actually, Ichbiah was well aware of the benefits of OOP, and actually that's why he insisted for having derived types in Ada83, against the opinion of the rest of his team. -- --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr) Visit Adalog's web site at http://www.adalog.fr