Xref: utzoo comp.software-eng:1178 comp.lang.ada:2084 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!kth!luth!mikael From: mikael@sm.luth.se (Mikael Eriksson) Newsgroups: comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Good Design Strategies Message-ID: <231@my6.sm.luth.se> Date: 28 Feb 89 11:23:01 GMT References: <4343@enea.se> <4574@hubcap.UUCP> Sender: mikael@sm.luth.se Reply-To: Mikael Eriksson Followup-To: comp.software-eng Organization: University of Lulea, Sweden Lines: 27 UUCP-Path: {uunet,mcvax}!enea!my6.sm.luth.se!mikael In article <4574@hubcap.UUCP> wtwolfe@hubcap.clemson.edu writes: >From article <4343@enea.se>, by sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog): >> What I like to stress is: Ada is *not* an object-oriented language. > > I quote from ACM SIGADA Ada Letters, March/April 1989, Volume IX, > Number 2, Page 10: > > Software Productivity Solutions, Inc., has announced a new product, > Classic-Ada (tm), which allows Ada software developers to use > inheritance and dynamic binding in object-oriented Ada designs. You mean that they sell a *super-set* of ADA? Mild sarcasm on: This must be what we all have been waiting for ! Mild sarcasm off. ADA is too much of an elephant already. I totally agree that inheritance is good but ADA would have to be pruned a lot before something new should be added to it. mikael -- Mikael Eriksson (Email: mikael@sm.luth.se) ......... You are in error. 2+2=5 Thank you for your cooperation. The Computer.