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From: Pascal Obry
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Subject: Re: smalltalk vs. Ada
Date: 09 Jun 2001 09:36:40 +0200
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Ed Falis 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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