Re: ada-c++ productivity

[jls@rutabaga.Rational.COM (Jim Showalter)]

>I hate the C'ness of C++, but I find myself implementing many things in
>C++ just because of inheritance and dynamic binding.  If Ada is ever
>to become mainstream (and I seriously hope it does) inheritance and
>dyn. binding had better be incorporated into the language.

Enlighten me. How is it that many of the largest software systems
ever attempted--including all of the flight control software for
North America and all the software for the Space Station--are being
written in Ada, even though Ada doesn't have "dynamic binding"?

Second question: assume Ada got dynamic binding tomorrow. What could
be done with it that can't be done with it today?
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