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From: barriost@jupiter.UUCP (Tim Barrios)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Wolfe and Misinformation
Summary: Classic Ada is to Ada as C++ is to C
Message-ID: <493ad283.a4de@jupiter.UUCP>
Date: 16 Mar 90 15:20:23 GMT
References: <19456@grebyn.com>
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In article <19456@grebyn.com>, ted@grebyn.com (Ted Holden) writes:
> From: William Thomas Wolfe @hubcap.clemson.edu
> >   Regrettably for Mr. Holden, object-oriented Ada is available right
> >   now.  Software Productivity Solutions has a product called Classic
> >   Ada which serves as a Smalltalk-based object-oriented preprocessor
> >   for Ada-language software developers.  ...
> And you know perfectly well that Ada code thus generated would be
> unmaintainable (as Ada code), ungodly slow (as if ordinary Ada wasn't),

In the case of using language superset like Classic Ada (or C++ for that matter),
the configuration item would become the superset source, not the generated
source.  Therfore, you would not be maintaining the generated Ada (or C).
That would be like maintaing the object code after you compile a program.
Sorry, you're wrong, again, Ted.

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