Ada only???

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4 total messages Started by Jim Burke Tue, 09 May 1989 15:38

#419

Author: Jim Burke
Date: Tue, 09 May 1989 15:38

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From the descriptions I've read on this new newsgroup, it seems that the
initial readers/posters are using the term "components" to refer exclusively
to Ada code ("software IC's").  Is this correct?  In the Object Oriented world,
we have used the term software IC for quite some time - especially in the
Objective-C world.  I have not encountered the term components in quite the
same context as it has been used here.  Is this primarily an Ada term?  The
descriptions I have seen of "components" seems to fit quite well with the
object oriented software IC in terms of reusability, reliability, etc.

So, is this an Ada newsgroup, an OO newgroup, both, neither, or what???
It is clear that the next generations of software development will rely on
the principals states for "components" but the implementations are likely
to by quite varied for quite some time...


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Re: Ada only???

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Author: Kenny A. Chaffin
Date: Wed, 10 May 1989 14:29

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I also wanted to breach this subject. I work in the Reusable Software Asset
group at U S WEST. We spent the last two years defining concepts and developing
reusable software components in ... COBOL ... We have had good response to 
these from several major projects going on in the company. We are currently
extending the scope of our work to the Unix/C/C++ area
I'm not really sure where this posting is going other than I just wanted
to point out the type of components we are dealing with.
KAC

Re: Ada only???

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Author: William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
Date: Wed, 10 May 1989 18:02

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From article <1844@mas1.mas.UUCP>, by jimb@mas.UUCP (Jim Burke):
> From the descriptions I've read on this new newsgroup, it seems that the
> initial readers/posters are using the term "components" to refer exclusively
> to Ada code ("software IC's").  Is this correct?  

    No, both the definition of the scope of the newsgroup and the
    definition of software components were language-independent.
    Ada was used as an example of an advanced language which provides
    an extremely high level of support for the component writer.


    Bill Wolfe, wtwolfe@hubcap.clemson.edu

Re: Ada only???

#450

Author: Jacob Gore
Date: Tue, 16 May 1989 03:31

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/ comp.sw.components / jimb@mas.UUCP (Jim Burke) / May  9, 1989 /
>it seems that the
>initial readers/posters are using the term "components" to refer exclusively
>to Ada code ("software IC's"). Is this correct?  In the Object Oriented world,
>we have used the term software IC for quite some time - especially in the
>Objective-C world.

"Software-IC" is a trademark of Stepstone, and they will only let you use
it in the context of Objective-C modules (preferably in object-code form).

Jacob Gore				Gore@EECS.NWU.Edu
Northwestern Univ., EECS Dept.		{oddjob,chinet,att}!nucsrl!gore

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