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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,16bd8131a17b875d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!usenet-fr.net!news.enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail From: "Alexander E. Kopilovich" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Virtual Components in Ada and Ruby Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 19:53:34 +0400 (MSD) Organization: Cuivre, Argent, Or Message-ID: References: <1dvcq9fimqv12.g8zq212sn8fw$.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.ada-france.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1120146984 83860 212.85.156.195 (30 Jun 2005 15:56:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:56:24 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org Return-Path: In-Reply-To: <1dvcq9fimqv12.g8zq212sn8fw$.dlg@40tude.net>; from "Dmitry A. Kazakov" at Thu, 30 Jun 2005 09:53:02 +0200 X-Mailer: Mail/@ [v2.45 MSDOS] X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at ada-france.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Gateway to the comp.lang.ada Usenet newsgroup" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-Original-Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11767 Date: 2005-06-30T19:53:34+04:00 Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: > I think that "record interface" could drastically improve Ada. At least, after that addition it would not be possible to say that Ada is clearly inferior to Object Pascal/Delphi in this respect. Stubborn resistance to this feature in Ada somehow resembles that infamous long-lived absence of enumerations in Java. Alexander Kopilovich aek@vib.usr.pu.ru Saint-Petersburg Russia