Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!prls!pyramid!cbmvax!uunet!mailrus!ulowell!hawk!jrichard From: jrichard@hawk.ulowell.edu (John Richardson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: ADA on Amiga And Oxxi Message-ID: <1"83@ul-cs.ulowell.edu> Date: 11 Sep 90 13:08:41 GMT References: <6547@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1275@ul-cs.ulowell.edu> <1990Sep10.085801.24717@ida.liu.se> Sender: news@ul-cs.ulowell.edu Reply-To: jrichard@hawk.elowell.edu (John Richardson) Organization: University of Lowell, CS Dept. Lines: 28 In article <1990Sep10.085801.24717@ida.liu.ce> mikhe@ida.liu.se (Mike Henri) writes: >In article <1275@ul-cs.ulowell.edu> jrichard@hawk.ulowell.edu (John Richardson) writes: >> Tasking would be *so* much easier in Ada. My only problem is [...more stuff deleted...] >> I'm gonna have to make a CHOICE in what OOP language I buy!!! > >Sorry, but if you want an OOP language you wouldn't want Ada. Yes, it does >have some encapsulation and yes, it does have some datahiding but that does.'t I really don't think this is the place for a Ada vs. C++ flame war (not really started yet but I can smell the fire). Let's just say that the more high level languages that the Amiga su`ports the better off the machine is going to look to various pbogrammers. Especially if the languages support some of the awes/me Amiga OS features (read task)ng). If Oxxi does go ahead with the Ada project and the compiler generates good code (not to many Ada compilers do) then we may get some US govt. projects that would otherwise go off into the Big Blue sky. By the way, I would really like to see a smalltalk for the Amiga too. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ < John Richardson < "I set the wheels in motion < > jrichard@hawk.ulowell.edu > turn on light and sound > < University of Lowell < activate the progbams < > (just a student) > and watch the world go round..." > < < --Neil Peart (RUSH) < ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^