From adt10@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com Wed Aug 26 18:51:41 1992 Received: from mcsun.EU.net by dkuug.dk via EUnet with SMTP (5.64+/8+bit/IDA-1.2.8) id AA24136; Wed, 26 Aug 92 18:51:41 +0200 Received: from charon.amdahl.com by mcsun.EU.net with SMTP id AA04398 (5.65b/CWI-2.174); Wed, 26 Aug 1992 18:51:48 +0200 Received: from amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (sde-hy.uts.amdahl.com) by charon.amdahl.com (4.0/SMI-4.1/DNS) id AA13172; Mon, 24 Aug 92 12:43:15 PDT Received: by amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (/\../\ Smail3.1.14.4 #14.11) id ; Mon, 24 Aug 92 12:43 PDT Message-Id: Date: Mon, 24 Aug 92 12:43 PDT From: adt10@uts.amdahl.com (Andrew D. Tait) To: sc22wg5@dkuug.dk Subject: Object Oriented Fortran (OOF!) X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 I support Dick Weaver's proposal to form an ad-hoc group to look at the issues surrounding Object Oriented Program and Fortran. However, I cannot agree with Lawrie Schonfelder that this is THE key issue for the next revision of Fortran. Like Keith Bierman I urge caution: after all those people who currently advocate OOP are largely those who advocated Pascal, and C. I cannot help thinking that OOP is the Structured Programing buzz word of the 1990s. Languages which embodied this concept (as we all know, it can be applied even to assembly langauge programming) have not been successful, whereas those that did not make a big song-and-dance about their support of this concept have done very well. Therefore, I hope that we can provide whatever is needed to support OOP in Fortran with a minimum of new features in Fortran. I would also like to remind you all that Jerry Wagener gave a good presentation on OOP and Fortran at Lund WG5 meeting (see WG5/N738), so we are not quite so remiss in this area as we might think. Andrew **************************************************************************