From: "Ed Falis" <falis@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: The A-Z of Programming Languages: Ada, interview with S. Tucker Taft
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:00:06 GMT
Date: 2008-06-05T15:00:06+00:00 [thread overview]
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On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:58:36 -0400, Georg Bauhaus
<rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de> wrote:
> IIUC what Taft says in the interview, Ichbiah didn't like the
> _way_ OOP was to be implemented. OTOH he had been working on a
> Simula compiler at INRIA. So maybe OOP alone was not the elephant.
>
I wasn't there, but rumor had it that JDI wanted to use the term "class"
(rather than "tagged type") for consistency with other OO languages. I
don't know what his other disagreements were.
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-04 10:52 The A-Z of Programming Languages: Ada, interview with S. Tucker Taft Ludovic Brenta
2008-06-04 14:14 ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-06-04 14:59 ` Ludovic Brenta
2008-06-05 2:01 ` Marc A. Criley
2008-06-05 13:58 ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-06-05 14:13 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2008-06-05 19:40 ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-06-05 20:46 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-06-06 17:57 ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-06-06 19:34 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-06-05 15:00 ` Ed Falis [this message]
2008-06-12 1:57 ` Randy Brukardt
2008-06-12 7:25 ` christoph.grein
2008-06-06 14:09 ` Ludovic Brenta
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