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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1116ece181be1aea X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-07 07:31:34 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-06!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: Jerry van Dijk Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is the Writing on the Wall for Ada? Date: 07 Sep 2003 16:31:20 +0200 Organization: JerryWare Message-ID: References: <3F5AE863.35C9D08@sympatico.ca> Reply-To: somename@nospam.demon.nl User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2.93 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:42234 Date: 2003-09-07T16:31:20+02:00 List-Id: Hyman Rosen writes: > David Marceau wrote: > > Interfaces are the way to separating the differences between versions of > > components. > > That is a very interesting point of view. Oh wait, no it isn't. It's just a > wrong point of view. The way interfaces are used in Java, and in C++ I think there is overloading problem here, it seems to me that David is talking about COM interfaces, and Hyman about language interfaces. BTW only yesterday I was reading on Slashdot about how Java was now a dead language (on desktop and server, I presume) because of its slow development, .NET is what everyone should be using... Mmmmm, anyone for Web enabled traffic control ? :-) Ahh, well, fortunately for Ada I am nowhere near retirement yet (although it sometimes feels like it :-) -- -- Jerry van Dijk, Leiden, Holland -- Note that email address is invalid