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From: jimb@mas.UUCP (Jim Burke)
Newsgroups: comp.sw.components
Subject: Ada only???
Message-ID: <1844@mas1.mas.UUCP>
Date: 9 May 89 15:38:23 GMT
Organization: Measurex Automation Systems, Cupertino CA
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From the descriptions I've read on this new newsgroup, it seems that the
initial readers/posters are using the term "components" to refer exclusively
to Ada code ("software IC's").  Is this correct?  In the Object Oriented world,
we have used the term software IC for quite some time - especially in the
Objective-C world.  I have not encountered the term components in quite the
same context as it has been used here.  Is this primarily an Ada term?  The
descriptions I have seen of "components" seems to fit quite well with the
object oriented software IC in terms of reusability, reliability, etc.

So, is this an Ada newsgroup, an OO newgroup, both, neither, or what???
It is clear that the next generations of software development will rely on
the principals states for "components" but the implementations are likely
to by quite varied for quite some time...


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