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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1008e3,a7084fcfbc5ce2fb X-Google-Attributes: gid1008e3,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,e5eb8ca5dcea2827 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Harry George Subject: Re: Ada OO Mechanism Date: 1999/05/30 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 483775447 References: <7i05aq$rgl$1@news.orbitworld.net> <7i17gj$1u1k@news2.newsguy.com> <7icgkg$k4q$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3749E9EC.2842436A@aasaa.ofe.org> <7id2eo$fag@drn.newsguy.com> <3749FF7D.F17CE16A@aasaa.ofe.org> <374AC676.F7AE0772@lmco.com> <374F1DD3.64070C3E@mitre.org> <7ircia$ued@drn.newsguy.com> Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.modula3 Date: 1999-05-30T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: chris@nospam writes: > Today I saw a book on modula-3. > > I think Ada OO should have been designed as modula-3 OO is. > [snip] > > I have no idea why Ada did not do it the same way. I wonder if when > Ada95 OO was designed, if modula-3 was around? > >From the home page (http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/modula-3/html/home.html): "Designed in the late 1980s at Digital Equipment Corporation and Olivetti" > I liked the way modula-3 did it. I think I am going to learn more > about that language. Too bad it is not a very much used language. Amen. A small but experienced community still uses it whereever possible. OO is just one of the things M3 does right. We can only hope Java steps up to UNSAFE and non-OO gc'd and non-gc'd structures. > > chris. > > -- Harry George hgg9140@seanet.com