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From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>
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Subject: Re: Ada Annoyances
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 18:18:20 -0500
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On 6/28/2017 3:50 PM, Randy Brukardt wrote:

> OOP seems to me to be incompatible with strong typing. I'd rather say
> goodbye to OOP than to strong typing, but YMMV.
> 
>                                    Randy.
> 

May be this is vindication that Niklaus Wirth was right
after all with his Language Pascal?  Strong typing, and
without OOP. Pascal Was perfect language for learning and
teaching also.

       Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs

Is all what was needed, and I still think that is true today.

Ada initially was almost like this when it came out and it
had no OOP, but Ada became much more complicated and complex with
time, adding more stuff to it including OOP.

One now needs almost a PhD in computer science and compiler theory
to fully understand and learn big languages like Ada and C++.

--Nasser