Re: smalltalk vs. Ada

[Pascal Obry <p.obry@wanadoo.fr>]

Ed Falis <efalis@mediaone.net> writes:

> I have.  It's a pleasure - much less "plumbing" to do OOP compared to Ada, if
> that's what you want to do.  The MI facilities work really well (unlike C++),
> the syntax is clean like Ada, and DbC is very useful (though pragma Assert in
> Ada gets you most of the way there).  It's much weaker in terms of portability
> of code between compilers than Ada is.  And it's not quite there yet for
> concurrency, or IMO real-time and systems programming.  Garbage collection also
> removes a lot of plumbing for general kinds of applications.  If you can't
> tell, Ada and Eiffel are my favorite languages.

I second that. And for me too Ada and Eiffel are my favorite languages.

Pascal.

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