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: 103376,1e919d8673687b04,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: mheaney@ni.net (Matthew Heaney) Subject: Re: ADA and Pascal work, C,C++, Date: 1997/11/07 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 287827719 References: <97110709415835@psavax.pwfl.com> Organization: Estormza Software Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-11-07T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <97110709415835@psavax.pwfl.com>, "Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96" wrote: > Ada83 did not have all of the OOFeatures that would qualify it to > be OO, but it pre-dated the invention of that paradigm. That's stretching. The first object-oriented language (I think) was Simula 67. That's the language that coined the term "class." Actually, Jean Ichbiah and his colleagues were very familiar with the paradigm, having written Simula compilers. Depending on who you ask, the reason Ichbiah didn't include full object-orientation (type-extension) in Ada 83 was either o he felt inheritance was too complex, and the language didn't need it, or o he wanted to include inheritance, but didn't think anyone would approve of such a radical idea -------------------------------------------------------------------- Matthew Heaney Software Development Consultant (818) 985-1271