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From: matsl@nada.kth.se (Mats Luthman)
Subject: Re: Ada
Date: 22 Nov 89 09:54:41 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2373@draken.nada.kth.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 10171@alice.UUCP

In article <7115@hubcap.clemson.edu>, billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu (William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 ) writes:

>    Written by the designer of C++, whose definition of object-oriented
>    is "Object-oriented programming is programming using inheritance".

As far as I recall Bjarne Stroustrup supports the widely accepted definition
of "Object oriented language":

  A language that supports:

*  Data abstraction (encapsulation)
*  Inheritance
*  Dynamic binding

I guess that people who claim that Ada is object oriented don't agree with
this definition, at least not with the third requirement, but saying what
I cited above is (and was probably meant to be) an insult to B.S. and his
intellectual capability.

Mats Luthman

  reply	other threads:[~1989-11-22  9:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 121+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1989-11-14 21:24 A farewell to Ada Ted Holden
1989-11-14 22:54 ` schmidt
1989-11-15 16:06 ` Ada William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 
1989-11-15 16:29   ` Ada & IBM William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 
1989-11-17 15:16     ` ryer
1989-11-18 18:47       ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 
1989-11-20  4:53       ` Jerry Callen
1989-11-19  6:05     ` Dick Dunn
1989-11-22 19:20       ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 
1989-11-19 20:19     ` Liam R. E. Quin
1989-11-20 12:55       ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 
1989-11-25 23:35         ` Liam R. E. Quin
1989-11-26  9:03           ` Ken Ritchie
1989-11-15 23:18   ` Ada Promises Doug Schmidt
1989-11-16 22:45     ` Ada compilers William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 
1989-11-19  6:30       ` This has gotten stupid! Dick Dunn
1989-11-16 19:08   ` Ada Walter Rowe
1989-11-16 21:33     ` Ada William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 
1989-11-17 18:53       ` Ada Pablo Fernicola
1989-11-18 18:55         ` Ada William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 
1989-11-21  5:24           ` Ada Andrew Koenig
1989-11-22  9:54             ` Mats Luthman [this message]
1989-11-22 18:44             ` Ada William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 
1989-11-23  9:44               ` Ada Mats Luthman
1989-11-23  7:12             ` Ada Markku Sakkinen
1989-11-21 14:35           ` Ada [and the object oriented metaphor] mjl
1989-11-22 20:54             ` Hoare, Ada, and safety/complexity John Goodenough
1989-11-24  0:38               ` Richard Pattis
1989-11-26  6:09           ` Ada vs. C++ Paul S. R. Chisholm
1989-11-18  6:38       ` Ada Marco S Hyman
1989-11-19  7:25       ` interesting statistic Dick Dunn
1989-11-22 18:54         ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 
1989-11-24 17:44           ` Cay Horstmann
1989-11-25 19:59             ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 
1989-11-17 15:59     ` Ada allows one-char names (was Re: Ada) Steve Frysinger of Blue Feather Farm
1989-11-19  5:52   ` Forward into the past Dick Dunn
1989-11-20 16:47   ` Ada vs. Posix -- the battle continues mjl
1989-11-20 21:51     ` Ada & Posix William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 
1989-11-21  1:06       ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 
1989-11-15 18:55 ` A farewell to Ada Richard S D'Ippolito
1989-11-17 17:19 ` Michael Schwartz
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1989-11-19  3:33 Ted Holden
1989-11-19 17:59 ` Ada William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 
1990-03-08 18:46 ADA jj
1990-03-12  2:14 A Poor Man's Ada Library Ted Holden
1990-03-12  5:08 ` Ada William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 
1990-03-15 20:32   ` Ada William B. Tyler
1990-03-16 14:08     ` Ada Dennis M. O'Connor
1996-06-14  0:00 ADA Robert Adams
1996-08-05  0:00 ada BCummi6553
1997-08-23  0:00 Ada Jeffrey D. Iverson
1997-10-28  0:00 Ada N6101233
1999-12-23  0:00 Ada Brijesh
1999-12-23  0:00 ` Ada reason67
1999-12-23  0:00   ` Ada Robert Dewar
2000-01-03  0:00     ` Ada Terry Sikes
2000-01-03  0:00       ` Ada Hyman Rosen
2000-01-04  0:00         ` Ada Richard D Riehle
2000-01-04  0:00           ` Ada Hyman Rosen
2000-01-04  0:00             ` Ada Richard D Riehle
2000-01-04  0:00             ` Ada Robert A Duff
2000-01-04  0:00         ` Ada Terry Sikes
2000-01-04  0:00         ` Ada Robert Dewar
2000-01-04  0:00           ` Ada Robert A Duff
2000-01-04  0:00             ` Ada Hyman Rosen
2000-01-04  0:00           ` Ada Hyman Rosen
2000-01-04  0:00         ` Ada Florian Weimer
2000-01-04  0:00           ` Ada Hyman Rosen
2000-01-04  0:00           ` Ada Brian Rogoff
2000-01-04  0:00       ` Ada Robert Dewar
2000-01-04  0:00         ` Ada Terry Sikes
2000-01-05  0:00           ` Ada Robert Dewar
2000-01-05  0:00             ` Ada Terry Sikes
2000-01-06  0:00           ` Ada Al Christians
2000-01-06  0:00             ` Ada Terry Sikes
2000-01-07  0:00             ` Ada Robert Dewar
1999-12-23  0:00 ` Ada Greg Martin
1999-12-23  0:00 ` Ada Jon Jensen
1999-12-23  0:00 ` Ada Roger Racine
1999-12-28  0:00   ` Ada Marin D. Condic
1999-12-31  0:00     ` Ada Richard D Riehle
2000-01-02  0:00       ` Ada Marin D. Condic
2000-01-02  0:00         ` Ada Robert Dewar
2000-01-02  0:00           ` Ada Marin D. Condic
2000-01-03  0:00             ` Ada Ted Dennison
2000-01-03  0:00             ` Ada Robert Dewar
2000-01-03  0:00               ` Ada Marin D. Condic
2000-01-03  0:00                 ` Ada Larry Kilgallen
2000-01-04  0:00                   ` Ada Charles Hixson
2000-01-03  0:00                 ` Ada Roger Racine
2000-01-13  0:00     ` Ada Magnus Alexandersson
2000-01-14  0:00       ` Ada Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-01-14  0:00         ` Ada Larry Kilgallen
2000-01-14  0:00           ` Ada Marin D. Condic
2000-01-14  0:00             ` Ada Magnus Alexandersson
2000-01-14  0:00               ` Ada Marin D. Condic
2000-01-13  0:00     ` Ada Magnus Alexandersson
1999-12-23  0:00 ` Ada Robert Dewar
1999-12-23  0:00   ` Ada tmoran
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     [not found]               ` <y4wvpdknsm.fsf@mailhost.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
2000-01-14  0:00                 ` Ada Andy Glew
2000-01-14  0:00                   ` Ada Chris Morgan
2000-01-14  0:00                   ` Ada Marin D. Condic
2000-01-15  0:00                     ` Ada Andy Glew
2000-01-15  0:00                       ` Ada Marin D. Condic
2000-01-15  0:00                       ` Ada Chris Morgan
2005-01-26 20:06 Ada mcf501
2005-01-26 20:24 ` Ada Larry Kilgallen
2005-01-26 23:55   ` Ada Stephen Leake
2005-01-26 20:35 ` Ada Frank J. Lhota
2005-01-26 23:57   ` Ada Stephen Leake
2005-01-26 20:57 ` Ada Ludovic Brenta
2005-01-26 23:54 ` Ada Stephen Leake
2005-01-27  0:42 ` Ada Jeffrey Carter
2005-01-27  1:17   ` Ada Larry Kilgallen
2005-01-27  4:43     ` Ada u_int32_t
2005-01-27  8:10       ` Ada Larry Kilgallen
2005-01-27 21:01       ` Ada Björn Lundin
2005-01-27  7:57 ` Ada Frank Piron
2005-01-27 10:53   ` Ada Larry Kilgallen
2005-01-27 11:05     ` Ada Frank Piron
2005-01-27 11:19     ` Ada Adrien Plisson
2005-01-28 10:27     ` Ada Stephen Leake
2005-01-27  9:12 ` Ada Martin Krischik
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