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In article <3EDBBC18.6080103@attbi.com>, "Robert I. Eachus" <rieachus@attbi.com> writes:

> Ada tagged type derivation trees tend to come in two flavors.  The first 
> is one parent with a lot of children. (A bush.)  The class rooted at 
> Controlled is like this.
> 
> The other common type of Ada derivation tree is a pole.  You have a 
> sequence of generic instantiations in the private part of a package 
> declaration, each instantiation creating a new mixin.

Presuming your survey is accurate, what basis is there to think this
would persist if Ada were widely used in a greater variety of domains ?