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Simulating inheritance with Ada

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ACM SIGAda Ada Letters, Volume VIII, Issue 5

Pages 37 - 46

https://doi.org/10.1145/51624.51625

Published: 01 September 1988 Publication History

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Inheritance is one of the key concepts of the object-oriented paradigm. In this article, we briefly review a very commonly known model of inheritance---Smalltalk 80---and the different steps that are taken in the inheritance process. We then analyze the Ada concept of derived types in order to simulate the inheritance mechanism that has been presented. By means of short Ada examples, it is shown how the derived types can help us with each of the steps defined in the model of inheritance presented.

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El Guemhioui KDemurjian SPeters TEngle C(1993)Object-oriented design and automatic Ada code generation in the education of software engineersProceedings of the conference on TRI-Ada '9310.1145/170657.170697(126-136)Online publication date: 1-Oct-1993
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Tang LMendal G(1992)A comparison of Ada and C++Proceedings of the conference on TRI-Ada '9210.1145/143557.143974(338-349)Online publication date: 1-Dec-1992
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Simulating inheritance with Ada
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language types

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ACM SIGAda Ada Letters Volume VIII, Issue 5

Sept./Oct. 1988

76 pages

ISSN:1094-3641

DOI:10.1145/51624

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Cammie Donaldson

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Published: 01 September 1988

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