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From: larry@VLSI.JPL.NASA.GOV
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Ada++ & Objective-Ada
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Date: 1 Jan 88 03:12:12 GMT
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If pre-processors or translators can be written for C to produce object-
oriented languages, then the same ought to be possible for Ada.  Has (is) 
anyone done this?  What are the advantages and problems?

I can see at least two problems for users.  Debugging of programs produced 
by anything other than a compiler means your
you're looking at "ugly Ada" rather than the "super Ada" of 
Objective-Ada/Ada++.  This was one reason RatFor and company never caught 
on widely.

Also, standardization might suffer.  I suspect, however, that the various 
super-Adas would be used only in experiments, and that useful features 
would eventually find their way into Ada-1993.
                                                    Larry @ jpl-vlsi