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From: "Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>
Subject: Fun with History: “Why wasn't Ada83 object oriented?”
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:22:18 +0100
Date: 2012-02-17T18:22:18+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <op.v9t2jgpmule2fv@douda-yannick> (raw)

Funny paper I’ve never read before. In the middle of the page (the link  
follows) you read:

> Why wasn't Ada83 object oriented?  It depends on who you ask.
> According to Bertrand Meyer (peut-etre il a parle a Jean?), Jean
> —who had been writing Simula compilers, and was thus familiar with
> the paradigm— thought that dynamic binding would have been too
> radical for the conservative DoD, who after all were the ones
> commissioning the language, and so he figured they wouldn't go for
> it.  According to others, Jean in fact didn't want type extension and
> dynamic binding, because he didn't think it was necessary.

Quoted from:  
http://www.adapower.com/index.php?Command=Class&ClassID=Advocacy&CID=39

-- 
“Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.” [1]
“Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.” [1]
[1]: Epigrams on Programming — Alan J. — P. Yale University



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Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-17 17:22 Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) [this message]
2012-02-17 17:31 ` Fun with History: “Why wasn't Ada83 object oriented?” Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-17 17:33 ` Fun with History: ³Why wasn't Ada83 object oriented?² Bill Findlay
2012-02-23 13:29 ` Fun with History: “Why wasn't Ada83 object oriented?” Marco
2012-02-23 16:23   ` Simon Wright
2012-02-23 16:53     ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-23 18:20       ` Simon Wright
2012-02-23 20:32       ` Phil Clayton
2012-02-24  1:14       ` Peter C. Chapin
2012-02-24 21:32   ` Re=Fun_with_History why_wasnt_Ada83_object_oriented tmoran
2012-02-26 14:53     ` Marco
2012-02-26 18:02       ` J-P. Rosen
     [not found]       ` <u-adnbL5aqVVy9fSnZ2dnUVZ_jednZ2d@earthlink.com>
2012-02-26 18:28         ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-26 21:45           ` Jeffrey Carter
2012-02-27 17:37           ` Adam Beneschan
2012-02-27 20:27             ` Jeffrey Carter
2012-02-26 18:33       ` tmoran
2012-02-26 16:22     ` Marco
2012-03-06  1:48       ` Randy Brukardt
2012-03-07 10:33         ` Early availability of cheap Ada compilers (Was: Re=Fun_with_History why_wasnt_Ada83_object_oriented) Jacob Sparre Andersen
2012-03-07 12:43           ` Simon Clubley
2012-03-08  1:42             ` Randy Brukardt
2012-03-08  1:38           ` Randy Brukardt
2012-03-08 12:21             ` Simon Clubley
2012-03-09  2:20               ` Randy Brukardt
2012-03-08  9:00           ` anon
2012-03-08 15:32             ` Shark8
     [not found]     ` <5d2664b3-566a-40a5-910b-ef3460a5f363@do4g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>
2012-02-26 22:03       ` Re=Fun_with_History why_wasnt_Ada83_object_oriented J-P. Rosen
2012-02-27  1:29         ` tmoran
2012-02-26 22:06     ` Gautier write-only
2012-02-27  2:15       ` anon
2012-02-27  4:05         ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-27  8:41           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-03-06  1:40     ` Randy Brukardt
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