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From: ee163acp@sdcc13.UUCP (DARIN JOHNSON)
Newsgroups: net.arch
Subject: Re: ADA
Message-ID: <198@sdcc13.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 19-Apr-85 16:10:13 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 19 16:10:13 1985
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Organization: U.C. San Diego, Academic Computer Center
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Summary: reply to ADA and OOL article

In article <5249@tekecs.UUCP>, net.lang@tekecs.UUCP writes:
> 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).
> 
I thought that was the whole idea behind generics.  Can't you
instantiate these with differing types, etc.?

   Darin Johnson.