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From: Hyman Rosen <hymie@prolifics.com>
Subject: Re: Ada OO Mechanism
Date: 1999/05/24
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Samuel Mize <smize@imagin.net> writes:
> There are other OO design approaches that are harder to implement in
> C++ than in Ada, because C++ strongly supports one specific view of
> object-oriented technology.

Could you give an example of this? I ask, because recently Richard
D. Riehle made a similar type of claim, and then declined to post an
example. I believe that many posters to this group are very proficient
in Ada but not as proficient in C++, so they may be mistaken about
what is difficult to do in C++. Posting an example allows proficient
C++ users to examine the apparently difficult code and offer
alternatives.

(Note that I am not looking for arbitrary examples of where Ada is
better than C++. I know that Ada is better, for example, in defining
data storage layout that conforms to external specifications, while
C++ is better in providing automatic generic instantiation.)