Date   : Mon, 03 Apr 2006 10:40:15 +0100 (BST)
From   : Steve Fewell <kranser@...>
Subject: Re: OO Languages (Was: BBC Basic) [OT]

--- Andy Armstrong <andy@...> wrote:

> On 2 Apr 2006, at 17:40, Jules Richardson wrote:
> > Agreed. BASIC's too unstructured, Pascal is a
> little too behind the  
> > times, and C++ is about the worst example of an OO
> language that  
> > it's possible to come up with (not that the
> competition does much  
> > better - Java's one of the few languages that's
> been designed to be  
> > both OO and 'clean' from the ground up)
> 
> Java's not quite so clean these days...
> 

My favourite language is Ada - which is a very
structured, very Type-strict OO language (which even
allows some low-level IO access too!). Which I woulod
say has been designed to be clean, and still is today.

One of the great things about the language is that it
has no input or output statements in the language
itself - so nothing to distract from the core
structure/portability of the language. The input and
output is provided as functions and procedures in link
library provided by the compiler!

Steve.



               
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