From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,21960280f1d61e84 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How come Ada isn't more popular? References: <1169636785.504223.139630@j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com> <45b8361a_5@news.bluewin.ch> <3pejpgfbki.fsf@hod.lan.m-e-leypold.de> <1sh134r4r8piq$.wh1w0uitf99t$.dlg@40tude.net> <83ozh.25895$yC5.16628@newssvr27.news.prodigy.net> From: Markus E Leypold Organization: N/A Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 19:41:11 +0100 Message-ID: User-Agent: Some cool user agent (SCUG) Cancel-Lock: sha1:GiJDcn41ZQPaNlq9Z1PfL15i/8g= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.74.33.177 X-Trace: news.arcor-ip.de 1171132557 88.74.33.177 (10 Feb 2007 19:35:57 +0200) X-Complaints-To: abuse@arcor-ip.de Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.arcor-ip.de!news.arcor-ip.de!not-for-mail Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:9248 Date: 2007-02-10T19:41:11+01:00 List-Id: writes: > > From my perspective, opaque types solve a lot of problems that are > inherent in C++ and Java and support an increased level of separation > of concerns in my application architecture. That being said, one can, > with a little effort, create C++ opaque types. I have not thought about > how this would be done in Java. Pehaps through the interface mechanism. That is what I would advocate. Regards -- Markus