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Subject: Re: ADA
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Date: Wed, 17-Apr-85 13:46:59 EST
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From: tekecs!tekecs!patcl (Pat Clancy)


>The real issue behind ADA is that it supports a static implementation
>of object oriented programming for general von Neumann architectures,
>not that the DoD has mandated its use. (Other such languages are
>Modula II, Mainsail and Smalltalk).

"Module" <> "object". Modula-2 is not an OOL, because there is
no way to create multiple instantiations of a module (either
statically or dynamically).

Pat Clancy, Tektronix
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