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: 103376,75fd0c408a2ec7a9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: mheaney@ni.net (Matthew Heaney) Subject: Re: Difference between Ada and Small talk - Object Oriented Date: 1997/11/01 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 286520783 References: <34592A6B.665@ednet.co.uk> Organization: Estormza Software Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-11-01T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <34592A6B.665@ednet.co.uk>, David Brown wrote: >Can any one help me, I have to write an essay on the differences between >Ada and Smalltalk focusing on there object oriented features. I'm not a SmallTalk programmer, but I do know Ada 95. Here's a couple things to read: o the section of the Ada 95 Rationale about the tagged types - you'll get lots of insight into the model. o the paper (go to the AdaIC or to the Ada Home) comparing Ada 95 to C++. Let me know if you need more info. Matt -------------------------------------------------------------------- Matthew Heaney Software Development Consultant (818) 985-1271