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From: billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu (William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 )
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Subject: Re: Ada
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Date: 18 Nov 89 18:55:37 GMT
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>From pff@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Pablo Fernicola):
> In IEEE Software, Vol.5 Num. 3 page 26, we read
> 
> 	"C++ has several advantages over Ada: ..."

   But unfortunately seems to be missing fundamental features
   such as exceptions, generics, and concurrency...

> A common syllogism nowadays is (from the same IEEE Software issue)
> 
> 	Ada is good; object-oriented is good;
> 	therefore, Ada is object oriented.

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

   The definition of "object-oriented" varies widely, but even if we
   accept this definition, we need only obtain Classic Ada (or some 
   equivalent preprocessing product) in order to use inheritance in
   an Ada environment, pending more direct support in Ada 9X.


   Bill Wolfe, wtwolfe@hubcap.clemson.edu