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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Simon Wright Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Things that OO programming lacks Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 17:54:06 +0000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <87389olqie.fsf@ixod.org> <10d9w.55626$8w1.22302@fx12.iad> <150er0b62wsh3$.1xabmp81w5kdw.dlg@40tude.net> <1azsoc77wjhmi$.1grmnnlq033tz.dlg@40tude.net> <5yzci4a8snfg.1dfsqjyvneeym$.dlg@40tude.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="a84de0bef967d8cbddafca7d81f7b456"; logging-data="25681"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19lnz6HbKIhH8b3M5d0NPnonEjt1Tmu93Y=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:UR2vHMsKBlpLUuw3UbMI7FmrR8s= sha1:GXMyRId5PdO3Ru7++QAt3ffzOzU= Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:23419 Date: 2014-11-16T17:54:06+00:00 List-Id: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" writes: > I didn't list event-driven AKA data-driven paradigm in my list of > paradigms, since it is so horrific, that nobody should seriously > consider it as useful. The event-driven approach to (real-time) software is the only way to build such systems: any other way is bound to lead to confusion and disaster. £0.02