ca@doc.ic.ac.uk (Colin Atkinson) (01/11/89)
In view of the recent references to Effiel and the desirability of
adopting "object oriented" features in future versions of Ada, some people
may be interested in the work of the European Esprit project, DRAGON
(No 1550). The project has developed a language, called DRAGOON, which
attempts to support distribution and reconfiguration, as well as reuse, by
combining the best features of object oriented programming and Ada. This is
achieved by extending the basic inheritance model of Eiffel to handle
concurrency and support the "virtual node" model of distribution adopted in
DIADEM.
Since it can be mapped into standard Ada, DRAGOON is primarily
a design language which (unlike familiar object oriented methods
targeted to Ada) supports multiple inheritance, polymorphism and
dynamic binding. However, all the extensions to Ada (eg classes, methods etc)
try to conform to its basic philosophy and style, so we hope DRAGOON
might also provide some ideas for Ada's future development."
More information can be obtained from the project manager :-
Mr. Andrea Di Maio
TXT SpA
Via della Guastalla 2
20122 Milano (Italy)
ph. +39-2-5456761
fax +36-2-78477590
telex 326826
email adimaio@euroies.uucp
Colin Atkinson,
Dept. of Computing, Imeprial College, LONDON.
ca@uk.ac.ic.doc