Smalltalk-80 as an Ada software environment

[Jean-Francois Lamy]

In article <2...@linus.UUCP> s...@linus.UUCP (Steven D. Litvintchouk) writes:
>3. Software reusability, by taking a Smalltalk class hierarchy and
> constructing its Ada equivalent (using Ada
> packages and compilation order semantics). (You would
> build a prototype/model class hierarchy in Smalltalk, and
> after modelling/simulation convinced you it was OK, you would
> then transliterate it to the corresponding Ada equivalent
> for the final product.)

At first glance this is going to be very hard. Emulating "virtual"
routines (i.e. when a subclass' routines redefines the superclass') is
not elegant not efficient (requires heavy and dirty use of generics).
Ada just isn't a good object-oriented language.

Jean-Francois Lamy
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Jean-Francois Lamy
AI Group, Dept of Computer Science CSNet: la...@ai.toronto.edu
University of Toronto EAN: la...@ai.toronto.cdn
Toronto, ON, Canada M5S 1A4 UUCP: la...@utai.uucp