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Ada 95

• General Characteristics
  • OOP was one of the most important extensions to Ada 83
  • Encapsulation container is a package that defines a tagged type
  • A tagged type is one in which every object includes a tag to indicate its type (at run-time)
  • Tagged types can be either private types or records

• Inheritance
  • Subclasses are derived from tagged types
  • New entities in a subclass are added in a record
  • All subclasses are subtypes
  • Single inheritance only, except through generics