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Funny paper I=E2=80=99ve never read before. In the middle of the page (t=
he 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
> =E2=80=94who had been writing Simula compilers, and was thus familiar =
with
> the paradigm=E2=80=94 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=3DClass&ClassID=3DAdvocacy&CID=
=3D39

-- =

=E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D [1]
=E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.=
=E2=80=9D [1]
[1]: Epigrams on Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale Univers=
ity