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From: matsl@nada.kth.se (Mats Luthman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Ada
Message-ID: <2373@draken.nada.kth.se>
Date: 22 Nov 89 09:54:41 GMT
References: <21248@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <7115@hubcap.clemson.edu> <10171@alice.UUCP>
Reply-To: matsl@nada.kth.se (Mats Luthman)
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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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