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Subject: Re: The A-Z of Programming Languages: Ada,
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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.