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In [1] Jean-François Perrot presents the concepts of object-oriented languages and programming. In the course of this presentation, he highlights eight difficult or controversial points (multiple inheritance, expressing constraints, hierarchy of parts, expressing different points of view on the same object, classifying objects with unprecise outlines and determining their class a posteriori, compulsory reification, types and classes, inheritance and genericity). We revisit, one by one, most of these difficulties/controversies, giving J.-F. Perrot's presentation, discussing it with the complementary light of recent work (when relevant), and showing what Ada 95 may offer to level these difficulties/controversies. We eventually reach the conclusion that Ada 95 offers a significant advance in getting solutions to them, mainly thanks to a combination of features (a higher level of modularity, the richness of inter-module relationships, constrained genericity) which is unique to this language.
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de Bondeli, P. (1996). An Ada 95 view of some difficult or controversial points in object-oriented programming. In: Strohmeier, A. (eds) Reliable Software Technologies — Ada-Europe '96. Ada-Europe 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1088. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0013503
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