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From: "David Botton" <David@Botton.com>
Subject: Re: friend classes in ada95
Date: 2000/04/19
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The first step is getting them to come over from other languages and/or to
think of Ada as even a possibility. The lack of the _code_word_ "class" is a
huge wall, and since the introduction of Java, the lack of direct support
for at least MI with interfaces is another.

David Botton

Geoff Bull wrote in message
>For people coming from other languages, changing the word tagged to class
>is going to help not zero.
>The problem they face is overcoming the assumptions they have made
>about how oo is implemented.