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- Last-Modified: 04/02/96
- Version: 1.0.9
-
- Indicate in your accompanying letter whether you want the system on a 9-track
- tape at 1600 BPI, at 6250 BPI, on a cartridge tape for SUN shoeboxes (QIC 24
- format), or on a TK50 DEC cartridge tape.
-
-
- >22 Sniff (C++ devel environ)
-
- [See also APPENDIX C, SNiFF+, for the commercial version]
-
- What: SNIFF (Sniff 1.1b (C++ Development Environment))
- From: shite@sinkhole.unf.edu (Stephen Hite)
- Date: 23 Aug 92 18:14:00 GMT
-
- Sniff 1.1b is available from iamsun.unibe.ch in the C++ hierarchy. It's a
- development environment for C++ (minus the C++ compiler or interpreter).
- It's freely available and you're gonna need OpenWindows 3.0 if you want
- to play with it immediately. I just downloaded it and haven't had a
- chance to look into whether the XView 3.0 package will be able to handle
- everything Sniff requires of the OpenLook part.
-
- And:
-
- From: sniff@takeFive.co.at (Mr. Sniff)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.unix,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.unix.solaris,comp.object
- Subject: SNiFF+ takeFive Starts Free University Distribution of Commercial C/C++ Programming Environment
- Date: 22 Sep 1993 15:51:26 GMT
- Organization: EUnet EDV-Dienstleistungsgesellschaft m.b.H
- Keywords: programming environments, browsing, C++
-
- SNiFF+: takeFive Starts Free University Distribution of Commercial C/C++
- Programming Environment
-
- 1. Introduction
- ===============
- Since the beginning of 1993 takeFive has taken over development and support
- for SNiFF+, a leading edge C/C++ programming environment. With SNiFF+
- rapidly gaining commercial acceptance takeFive has decided to offer the
- product free to educational establishments. There are several reasons for
- this step.
-
- ...
-
- 6. How to Obtain SNiFF+
- =======================
- 6.1 FTP
- -------
- Sniff can be downloaded from anonymous FTP sites in USA and Europe.
- You can get all details from info@takeFive.co.at.
-
- And:
-
- From: hueni@iam.unibe.ch (Hermann Hueni)
- Subject: Re: Browsers
- Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1993 12:37:28 GMT
-
- Sniff is a commercial product.
- Send mail to info@takeFive.co.at
- AN early version is available as a SUN SPARC binary only from
- siam.unibe.ch:C++/Sniff1.6/ (THIS site is in EUROPE)
-
-
- >23 C++ tags
-
- What: ctags/etags for C and C++
- From: kendall@centerline.com (Sam Kendall)
- Date: 10 Jun 92 09:31:27 GMT
-
- A lot of people have requested this software! You can now get Tags for
- C/C++ version 1.0 via anonymous ftp at:
-
- ftp.centerline.com:/pub/tags-1.0.tar.Z
-
- ftp.centerline.com is 140.239.2.29. Anonymous ftp means login as "ftp" and
- give your email address as the password.
-
- If you don't have ftp access to the internet, you may want to wait for this
- stuff to come out in comp.sources.unix. Or, if you plan to use it right away,
- send me a letter that says "I can't use ftp; please send by email" and I will
- do so.
-
-
- >24 short tool
-
- From: neil@aldur.demon.co.uk (Neil Wilson)
- Subject: New version of 'short' available
- Date: Sat, 7 Aug 1993 09:38:25 +0000
-
- A new beta release (1.2) of 'short' is available from the Stuttgart
- Eiffel archive (ftp.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de) in directory
- /pub/eiffel/eiffel-3/sig
-
- Command line processing is now included in the short system. Short can
- now cope with multiple input files, the standard input and deal with
- most file errors.
-
- Short now depends on the argument cluster which is available from
- the same archive and directory.
-
- Short supports the following options:
-
- -V, +version, -h, +help
- Displays the 'short' version information and gives the
- usage help message for the command.
-
- -e, +abstract, +eiffel
- Produces a fully deferred version of the input class(es)
- which will compile just like any other class (hopefully :-)
-
- -l <class_name>, +view <class_name>
- Produces the output from the point of view of the class
- <class_name> - the "short form for <class_name>".
- Special handling for ANY and NONE of course. By default
- short outputs the "short form for ANY".
-
- -f, +full
- Produces the short form including all the feature
- blocks. (Implemented as the "short form for NONE".)
-
- -p, +parents
- Retains the inheritance clause in the output. The default is
- to drop it.
-
- -b <number>, +blank <number>
- Indent levels by <number> characters.
-
- -c <number>, +column <number>
- Width of the output is <number> characters. Should be
- greater than 20.
-
- Obsolete features are not retained. Obsolete classes retain no features.
-
- The output of the tool now conforms to the layout rules in Appendix A of
- ETL and should look like the 'short' examples in the book. As much as is
- possible the output and command line options conform to ISE's 2.3
- version of 'short'.
-
- This release of short has been tested on all the v1.21 Eiffel/S
- libraries, itself and the argument clusters, plus any other class
- fragments I had lying around at the time.
-
- My biggest debt is of course to David Morgan. This version is only
- really a tiny modification of his work. His ELEXER Eiffel 3 parser
- remains the core of the tool. I though am responsible for any remaining
- deficiencies or problems with this release.
-
- Problems, suggestions, comments, criticisms to me please. All gratefully
- received - I can't improve my Eiffel if somebody doesn't tell me where I
- blew it.
-
-
- >25 COOL(C++, Cfront 2.1, from GE)
-
- COOL is a C++ class library developed at Texas Instruments.
-
- Features are:
- 1. Rich set of containers like Vector, List, Hash_Table, Matrix, etc...
- 2. Hierarchy is shallow with no common base class, rather than deep like NIHCL.
- 3. Functionality close to Common Lisp data structures, like GNU libg++.
- 4. Template syntax very close to Cfront3.x, g++2.x.
- 5. Free, with good documentation, and extensive test cases.
-
- Light version of COOL from General Electric:
- 1. Hairy macros, run-time type, exceptions removed for mainstream C++
- compatibility
- 2. Free of memory leaks and bound violations. Leaks and bounds are checked
- with Purify.
- 3. Has memory management and efficient copy in expressions like:
- Set c = a+b+c;
- Pointers are shared with Handle and Reference count. Deep copy in
- expressions are replaced by shallow copy.
- 4. Compatible with Cfront2.1, and is being converted to Cfront3.0. You can
- build both static and shared library on SunOS 4.1.x
-
- 1. original version from Texas Instruments:
- at csc.ti.com, get pub/COOL.tar.Z
- 2. Cfront2.1 version modified by General Electric:
- at cs.utexas.edu, get pub/COOL/GE_COOL2.1.tar.Z
-
- I am working on Cfront3.0 version of COOL, using the Beta 3.0 from Sun. I am
- experiencing problems with instantiation and specialization of templates. So
- Cfront3.0 version of COOL won't be available until Sun's Cfront 3.0 is
- released with bugs fixed.
-
- Van-Duc Nguyen
- General Electric
- Research & Development Ctr
- 1 River Road, Room K1-5C39.
- Schenectady, NY 12301.
- Phone: (518) 387-5659
- Fax: (518) 387-6845
- nguyen@crd.ge.com
-
-
- >26 idl.SunOS4.x, idl.Solaris2.x
-
- Subject: Binaries for OMG IDL CFE placed on omg.org
- Date: 11 Jun 93 00:13:11 GMT
- Reply-To: jyl@toss.eng.sun.com
-
-
- SunSoft has made available statically linked binaries for the OMG IDL CFE,
- for both Solaris 1.x and Solaris 2.x. Because they are statically linked,
- these binaries can be used on systems which do not have the SparcWorks (TM)
- compilers installed.
-
- It is expected that people who only want an IDL parser will prefer to
- obtain these binaries instead of compiling the program on their host.
- People who want to build a complete compiler, by programming their own
- back-end, will continue to obtain the sources which are also provided at
- the same location.
-
- The binaries can be obtained by anonymous FTP to omg.org. They are
- installed in the directory pub/OMG_IDL_CFE_1.2/bin, in idl.SunOS4.x and
- idl.Solaris2.x. Uuencoded versions are also available, in the same
- directory.
-
- Please send email to idl-cfe@sun.com if you obtain these files.
-
- The attached copyright applies to the provided binaries and to the source
- files provided on the omg.org file server.
-
-
- Copyright:
- Copyright 1992 Sun Microsystems, Inc. Printed in the United States of
- America. All Rights Reserved.
-
- This product is protected by copyright and distributed under the following
- license restricting its use.
-
- The Interface Definition Language Compiler Front End (CFE) is made
- available for your use provided that you include this license and copyright
- notice on all media and documentation and the software program in which
- this product is incorporated in whole or part. You may copy and extend
- functionality (but may not remove functionality) of the Interface
- Definition Language CFE without charge, but you are not authorized to
- license or distribute it to anyone else except as part of a product or
- program developed by you or with the express written consent of Sun
- Microsystems, Inc. ("Sun").
-
- The names of Sun Microsystems, Inc. and any of its subsidiaries or
- affiliates may not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to
- distribution of Interface Definition Language CFE as permitted herein.
-
- This license is effective until terminated by Sun for failure to comply
- with this license. Upon termination, you shall destroy or return all code
- and documentation for the Interface Definition Language CFE.
-
- [...] etc. on copyright stuff [...]
-
- SunSoft, Inc.
- 2550 Garcia Avenue
- Mountain View, California 94043
-
- >27 Browser for OO info
-
- A search engine for Object-Oriented Information Sources on the World
- Wide Web is being maintained by the Software Composition Group at the
- University of Berne, Switzerland. The URL to access is:
-
- http://iamwww.unibe.ch/~scg/OOinfo/index.html
-
- A mirror of the catalog is available from the University of Geneva:
-
- http://cuiwww.unige.ch/OSG/OOinfo/
-
- Please e-mail suggestions for new entries to: scg@iam.unibe.ch
-
- A searchable bibliography of object-oriented references is also available:
-
- http://iamwww.unibe.ch/cgi-bin/oobib
-
- as is a (searchable) version of the OO FAQ:
-
- http://iamwww.unibe.ch/~scg/OOinfo/FAQ/index.html
-
- Oscar Nierstrasz
-
- ---
- Prof. Dr. Oscar Nierstrasz; oscar@iam.unibe.ch; http://iamwww.unibe.ch/~oscar
- Software Composition Group; CS Inst., U. Berne; Tel/Fax: +41 31 631.4618/3965
-
- >28 Apertos(Meta-Obj Distr OS, research)
-
- The Apertos (formerly MUSE) project at Sony Research
- is a meta-object based distributed OS for turning portable wireless
- hand-held computers into fully-connected Dynabook-like
- terminals. It's very very wizzy. The papers are on:
- scslwide.sony.co.jp:pub/CSL-Papers
-
- The source is available for research; I think you have to
- sign something first.
-
-
- >29 Actors Paper (UIUC)
-
- From: agha@cs.uiuc.edu (Gul Agha)
- Subject: Actor Theory Paper available
- Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
- Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1993 15:41:02 GMT
-
- A new paper providing a definitive and detailed development of the
- semantics of actor systems is available via anonymous ftp. Comments
- are especially welcome.
-
-
- Title: A Foundation for Actor Computation
-
- Authors: Gul Agha, Univerity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Ian Mason, Stanford University
- Scott Smith, John Hopkins University
- Carolyn Talcott, Stanford University
-
- Abstract:
-
- We present an actor language which is
- an extension of a simple functional language, and provide a precise
- operational semantics for this extension. Actor configurations are
- open distributed systems, meaning we explicitly take into account the
- interface with external components in the specification of an actor
- system. We define and study various notions of equivalence on actor
- expressions and configurations.
-
- to ftp the compressed postscript file:
- ftp sail.stanford.edu (or 36.28.0.130)
- login: anonymous
- send ident as password.
- cd pub/MT
- the file is called:
- 93actors.ps.Z
-
- Note: the paper is 76pp long. It subsumes work reported in our paper
- in CONCUR '92.
-
- (A number of other recent papers on actor languages and their
- implementation may be obtained by anonymous ftp from
- biobio.cs.uiuc.edu in the directory pub/papers).
-
-
- >30 Chambers' Thesis
-
- What: SELF optimizing compiler and Thesis
- From: chambers@cs.washington.edu (Craig Chambers)
- Date: 9 May 92 22:00:53 GMT
-
- My Ph.D. thesis, entitled "The Design and Implementation of the Self Compiler,
- an Optimizing Compiler for Object-Oriented Programming Languages," is now
- available as Stanford technical report number STAN-CS-92-1420. Copies may be
- ordered from Stanford. Stanford requires $20 (plus tax for orders from within
- California), in advance, for each copy.
-
- The dissertation also is available in compressed postscript form. The
- electronic version may be copied via anonymous ftp from self.stanford.edu in
- the directory pub/papers/chambers-thesis. This version is free. Note however
- that the thesis is about 250 pages long.
-
-
- >31 graph drawing
-
- From: rt@cs.brown.edu (Roberto Tamassia)
- Subject: annotated bibliography on graph drawing algorithms
- Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
- Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1993 06:45:48 GMT
-
- A new revised version of the annotated bibliography on graph drawing
- algorithms by Giuseppe Di Battista, Peter Eades, Roberto Tamassia, and
- Ioannis Tollis is now available via anonymous ftp from
- wilma.cs.brown.edu (128.148.33.66). The files are /pub/gdbiblio.tex.Z
- and /pub/gdbiblio.ps.Z.
-
-
- >32 Law of Demeter
-
- From: lieber@ccs.neu.edu (Karl Lieberherr)
- Subject: Law of Demeter/Adaptive Software
- Organization: College of CS, Northeastern University
- Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1993 20:41:49 GMT
-
- >...
- Yes, the Law of Demeter paper is available in electronic form on the
- net. Indeed, many of the Demeter project papers are available from
- the ftp server at Northeastern University (see instructions below).
-
- The Law of Demeter idea has been automated in the Demeter Tools/C++
- as an adaptive software tool which automatically makes much of your C++ code
- compliant with the Law of Demeter. The tool is an add-on tool to
- your favorite C++ development environment and is commercially available
- from Demeter International. The Demeter Tools/C++ lift
- object-oriented programming to a higher level of abstraction
- by allowing the user to focus on the essential and
- stable classes. A paper on ADAPTIVE SOFTWARE will appear in
- the Communications of the ACM and is also available from the
- ftp server.
-
- For more information, use the ftp instructions below or call
-
- Demeter International
- 56 Bennett Road
- Marblehead, MA 01945
-
- phone: (617) 639 1544
- fax: (617) 373 5121
-
- or send e-mail to demeter@ccs.neu.edu
-
- -- Karl Lieberherr
-
- FTP instructions:
-
- Some of our papers are available in one package by anonymous ftp from
-
- ftp.ccs.neu.edu (129.10.10.51)
-
- in directory pub/demeter/documents
-
- Use the following command sequence to copy the Demeter papers:
-
- % ftp ftp.ccs.neu.edu or 129.10.10.51)
- Name ( ... ): ftp
- Password: your-email-address
- ftp> cd pub/demeter/documents
- ftp> ls
- ftp> binary
- ftp> get papers.tar.Z
- ftp> quit
- % uncompress papers.tar.Z
- % tar xf papers.tar
-
- If you want to copy individual papers and not all at once, go to
- directory pub/demeter/documents/papers and retrieve them
- individually.
-
- Law of Demeter paper:
- LH89-law-of-demeter.ps
- Adaptive Software papers:
- LSLX93-adaptive-programming.ps
- L92a-component-enhancement.ps
- LHSLX92-pp-experience.ps
-
-
- >33 OO Dyn Grping, memory
-
- From: mario@cs.man.ac.uk (Mario Wolczko)
- Subject: Re: OOPLs and Locality of Reference
- Keywords: locality of reference
- Date: 5 Jul 93 14:39:13 GMT
- Organization: Dept Computer Science, University of Manchester, U.K.
-
- [...]
- The measurements done as part of the work here on the Mushroom project
- show that temporal locality within Smalltalk objects is great (and
- hence even conventional caches work reasonably well [unless the GC
- scheme trashes the cache]), whereas spatial locality on a scale much
- larger than the average object (which is 40 bytes) is much harder to
- come by.
-
- More details can be found in these papers (all available by ftp from
- mushroom.cs.man.ac.uk in /pub/mushroom/papers):
-
- dgvm1.ps.Z
- "Dynamic Grouping in an Object Oriented Virtual Memory Hierarchy"
- Ifor Williams, Mario Wolczko, Trevor Hopkins, Proc. ECOOP 87,
- Springer-Verlag LNCS 276, pp.79-88.
-
- dgvm2.ps.Z
- "Realization of a Dynamically Grouped Object-Oriented Virtual
- Memory Hierarchy", Proceedings of the Workshop on Persistent Object
- Systems: Their Design, Implementation and Use, available as
- Persistent Programming Research Report PPRR-44-87, Universities
- of Glasgow and St. Andrews, Aug. 1987, pp.298--308.
-
- obma.ps.Z
- "An Object-Based Memory Architecture"
- Ifor Williams and Mario Wolczko, in Implementing Persistent Object
- Bases: Proc. Fourth International Workshop on Persistent Object Systems,
- Morgan Kaufmann, 1991, pp.114-130.
- The first three figures are in obma-fig[123].ps.Z.
-
- Mario Wolczko
-
- ______ Dept. of Computer Science Internet: mario@cs.man.ac.uk
- /~ ~\ The University uucp: mcsun!uknet!man.cs!mario
- ( __ ) Manchester M13 9PL JANET: mario@uk.ac.man.cs
- `-': :`-' U.K. Tel: +44-61-275 6146 (FAX: 6236)
- ____; ;_____________the mushroom project___________________________________
-
-
- >34 Pred Classes (Cecil)
-
- What: "Predicate Classes" paper
- From: chambers@klamath.cs.washington.edu (Craig Chambers)
- Date: Fri, 30 Apr 93 01:25:02 GMT
-
- "Predicate classes are a new linguistic construct designed to
- complement normal classes in object-oriented languages. Like a normal
- class, a predicate class has a set of superclasses, methods, and
- instance variables. However, unlike a normal class, an object is
- automatically an instance of a predicate class whenever it satisfies a
- predicate expression associated with the predicate class. The
- predicate expression can test the value or state of the object, thus
- supporting a form of implicit property-based classification that
- augments the explicit type-based classification provided by normal
- classes. By associating methods with predicate classes, method lookup
- can depend not only on the dynamic class of an argument but also on
- its dynamic value or state. If an object is modified, the
- property-based classification of an object can change over time,
- implementing shifts in major behavior modes of the object. A version
- of predicate classes has been designed and implemented in the context
- of the Cecil language."
-
- Comments on the ideas in the paper are appreciated.
-
- -- Craig Chambers
-
-
- >35 Manchester Archive and some
-
- What: Manchester Archive, SmallTalk-V
- From: johnson@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Ralph Johnson)
- Date: 18 Dec 91 19:41:38 GMT
-
- We have a complete copy of everything in the Manchester archive, and you
- can either access it by e-mail like the Manchester archive or by anonymous
- ftp. Our archive is on st.cs.uiuc.edu, and you can get information about the
- e-mail server by sending to archive-server@st.cs.uiuc.edu, and putting the
- line help in your message. We actually have a little more than is in the
- Manchester archive. We have the Smalltalk-V code from the defunct
- International Smalltalk Association, and a few other odds and ends.
-
- Also:
- The University of Illinois Smalltalk Archive is now offering a WWW server
- the URL is http://st-www.cs.uiuc.edu/
-
-
- >36 Object Design's OO7 Results
-
- What: Object Design's Results on the OO7 Benchmarks
- From: dudek@odi.com (Glen Dudek)
- Date: Thu, 29 Apr 93 17:17:11 GMT
-
- OBJECT DESIGN'S RESULTS ON THE OO7 BENCHMARKS
- April 26, 1993
-
- We have made a copy of our results available to the Internet community. You
- can access this information through anonymous ftp from ftp.odi.com in the
- file /pub/oo7/results.ps.
-
- The report includes the "official" tests done for ObjectStore by the
- University of Wisconsin, and our internal execution of all the tests using
- ObjectStore Release 2.0.1, the current production version. As the report
- shows, our internal execution carefully followed the agreed-upon procedures
- for running OO7, and we believe the numbers that were produced accurately
- represent ObjectStore's performance.
-
- For further information contact oo7info@odi.com.
-
-
- >37 Graph service
-
- From: north@ulysses.att.com (Stephen C. North)
- Subject: free samples of directed graph layouts by mail
- Keywords: graph layout, DAG, embedder
- Date: 25 Jun 93 18:28:29 GMT
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
-
- I have created an experimental service for remote users to try some of
- our graph layout programs through Internet mail, for research or
- educational purposes. I'm looking for a few friendly users to try this
- service. The programs are:
-
- dag (directed graphs, old, program, works with some USL C++ utilities.
- This may have unintentionally sparked the apparently misdirected
- discussion of "DAG classes" in one newsgroup recently.)
- dot (directed graphs, newer algorithms, better layouts, more features)
- neato (undirected graphs, compatible with dot, Kamada-Kawai spring embedder)
-
- You can ftp PostScript files of documentation from dist/drawdag/*.Z on
- research.att.com
-
- To draw graphs, send a graph file to drawdag@toucan.research.att.com
- and give the command line in the Subject header. For example,
-
- From cs.Princeton.EDU!north Thu Jun 24 11:45:28 0400 1993 remote from toucan
- Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1993 11:45:28 -0400
- From: Stephen North <north@cs.Princeton.EDU>
- To: drawdag@toucan.research.att.com
- Subject: dot -Tps
-
- digraph G { a -> b }
-
- File arguments are disabled for obvious reasons. Please let me know if
- you hit any snags. There is a reasonable limit on graph size and probably
- number of invocations from a given site/account. (If you use it that much,
- AT&T's Intellectual Property Division sells binary executables; their number
- is 800-462-8146).
-
- Stephen North, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ, (908) 582 7392
- Parturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus!
-
-
- >38 C++SIM (Simula-like Sim Pkg)
-
- From: M.C.Little@newcastle.ac.uk (Mark Little)
- Subject: C++SIM Release 1.0 Announcement
- Organization: Computing Laboratory, U of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK NE17RU
- Keywords: C++, SIMULA, simulation, object-oriented
- Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1993 15:02:33 GMT
-
- C++SIM 1.0 Release Announcement.
-
- This is to announce the release of version 1.0 of C++SIM, a simulation
- package written in C++. C++SIM provides discrete process based
- simulation similar to that provided by the simulation class and
- libraries of SIMULA. The linked list manipulation facilities provided
- by SIMSET are also included in the package.
-
- Inheritance was used throughout the design to an even greater extent
- than is already provided by SIMULA. This has allowed us to add new
- functionality without affecting the overall system structure, and hence
- provides for a more flexible and expandable simulation package.
-
- A paper is included which describes the design and implementation of
- C++SIM and includes a worked example of how to use the package. The
- paper describes the class hierarchy which we have created, and
- indicates how it can be used to further refine the simulation package.
-
- The simulation package requires the use of a threads package and
- currently only works with Sun's lightweight process library or the Gnu
- thread package (which *is* included in the distribution). The package has
- been used on Sun workstations, and, with the exception of the thread
- library requirement, contains no system specific code which should make
- porting to other systems relatively easy. The code has been compiled
- with Cfront 2.1 and Cfront 3.0.1 and g++ 2.3.3
-
- If you find any bugs or make modifications (e.g., ports to other thread
- packages) or port it to other systems, then please let me know so I can
- keep the sources up-to-date for other users.
-
- The package is available via anonymous ftp from arjuna.ncl.ac.uk
-
-
- >39 commercial on cd-rom
-
- From: jimad@microsoft.com (Jim Adcock)
- Subject: Re: Non-defense Ada applications - answering several requests
- Date: 11 Jun 93 18:56:55 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
-
- >...
-
- 1) Get a copy of the Computer Select Database. [I notice the company
- is offering free trial copies [the database is CD-ROM based]]
-
- 2) Select "Section: Software Product Specifications"
-
- 3) Select "Find: C++"
-
- Behold! A list of 734 commercially available software packages written
- in C++, including some of the best known names in the software industry.
-
-
- >40 C++ Signatures (subtyping)
-
- From: gb@cs.purdue.edu (Gerald Baumgartner)
- Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: signature implementation for G++ 2.5.2 and tech report available
- Date: 4 Nov 1993 12:03:00 -0500
- Organization: Department of Computer Sciences, Purdue University
-
- Announcing the paper
-
- Signatures: A C++ Extension for
- Type Abstraction and Subtype Polymorphism
-
- by Gerald Baumgartner and Vincent F. Russo.
- Tech report CSD-TR-93-059, Dept. of Computer
- Sciences, Purdue University, September 1993.
- Submitted to Software Practice & Experience.
-
- and a beta release of our implementation of
-
- signatures for GCC 2.5.2.
-
-
- How to Get that Stuff?
- ----------------------
-
- You can get both the paper and the implementation by ftp from
-
- host: ftp.cs.purdue.edu (128.10.2.1)
-
- login: anonymous
-
- password: your e-mail address
-
- directory: pub/gb
-
- files: COPYING Copyright notice.
-
- README This file.
-
- Signatures.{dvi,ps}.gz DVI and Postscript versions
- of the paper.
-
- gcc-2.5.2.sig.diff.gz Patch to upgrade GCC 2.5.2.
-
- test.tar.gz Test files and script to run
- the tests.
-
- To make GCC 2.5.2 understand signatures, just copy the context diff
- file into the GCC source directory, type
-
- gunzip gcc-2.5.2.sig.diff.gz
- patch < gcc-2.5.2.sig.diff
-
- and rebuild and install `gcc,' `cc1plus,' the man pages, and the manual.
-
- For compiling C++ code containing signatures, you need to use the
- command line option
-
- -fhandle-signatures
-
- We tested our extension on Sun 4 only, but since there are no changes
- to the compiler backend, it is expected work on other architectures as
- well. To test whether it works on your architecture, unpack the file
- `test.tar.gz' and run the shell script
-
- Test
-
- It compiles the test programs and runs them. If everything works
- correctly, all the test programs (all 40 of them) should print
-
- Hello World.
-
-
- What are Signatures anyway?
- ---------------------------
-
- Roughly, signatures are type abstractions or interfaces of classes.
- They are related to ML's signatures, categories in Axiom, definition
- modules in Modula-2, interface modules in Modula-3, and types in
- POOL-I.
-
- The main language constructs added are signatures and signature pointers.
- For example, the signature declaration
-
- signature S
- {
- int foo (void);
- int bar (int);
- };
-
- defines a new abstract type `S' with member functions `int foo (void)'
- and `int bar (int).' Signature types cannot be instantiated since they
- don't provide any implementation. Only signature pointers and signature
- references can be defined. For example,
-
- C obj;
- S * p = &obj;
-
- defines a signature pointer `p' and initializes it to point to an object
- of class type `C,' where `C' is required to contain the public member
- functions `int foo (void)' and `int bar (int).' The member function call
-
- int i = p->foo ();
-
- executes then `obj.foo ().'
-
- Class `C' is called an implementation of the abstract type `S.' In
- this example, we could have made `S' an abstract virtual class and `C' a
- subclass of `S,' and we would have had the same effect. The advantages
- of signatures over abstract virtual classes are
-
- - you can build a type hierarchy separate from the class inheritance
- (implementation) hierarchy,
- - subtyping becomes decoupled from inheritance, and
- - signatures can be used with compiled classes, while you cannot
- retrofit an abstract virtual class on top of compiled class
- hierarchies.
-
- For more information, please, see the paper.
-
-
- What's Implemented and what's not?
- ----------------------------------
-
- Signature declarations and signature pointers are implemented and
- working. For examples of what's working and how to use them you can
- have a look at the test files.
-
- The following bugs are known:
-
- - The destructor of objects cannot be called though signature pointers.
- - A signature pointer cannot point to an object of a class defined
- by multiple inheritance.
- - The signature conformance check does not work if the signature
- contains other signature declarations or class declarations.
- - Operator and conversion operator member functions of signatures
- can only be called with function call syntax, such as
- `p->operator+(17),' but not with operator or conversion syntax.
-
- The following language constructs and features are not yet implemented:
-
- - constants in signatures,
- - signature references,
- - signature inheritance,
- - the `sigof' (signature of a class) construct,
- - views (not even the parsing is done),
- - signature templates, and
- - exception specifications in signature member function declarations.
-
- The following optimization is not implemented:
-
- - Looking up a virtual class member function through a signature
- pointer/reference requires double indirection. This can be optimized
- by memoizing, so that only the first lookup of a member function
- requires double indirection and further lookups require only single
- indirection.
-
- The items above are roughly in the order in which they will be implemented.
-
- Besides bug fixes, the main features that have been implemented since the
- last release are default implementations of signature member functions
- and opaque types.
-
-
- Feedback
- --------
-
- Please, send your questions, comments, suggestions, and complaints to
-
- gb@cs.purdue.edu
-
- --
- Gerald Baumgartner
- Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN 47907
- Internet: gb@cs.purdue.edu, UUCP: ...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!gb
-
-
- >41 The Texas Persistent Store
-
- The Texas Persistent Store, version 0.1
-
- Texas is a simple, portable, high-performance and (best of all) FREE
- persistent store for C++ using "pointer swizzling at page fault time"
- to translate persistent addresses to hardware-supported virtual addresses.
-
- Texas is built on top of a normal virtual memory, and relies on the
- underlying virtual memory system for caching. It uses user-level virtual
- memory protections to control the faulting of data from a persistent storage
- file into virtual memory.
-
- All addresses in a page are translated from a persistent format to
- actual virtual addresses when the page is brought into virtual memory,
- and subsequent memory references (including pointer traversals) are
- just as fast as for non-persistent data.
-
- Texas is easy to use, and is implemented as a UNIX library. It is small
- and can be linked into applications. It requires no special operating
- system privileges, and persistence is orthogonal to type---objects may be
- allocated on either a conventional transient heap, or on the persistent
- heap, as desired.
-
- Texas supports simple checkpointing of heap data. A log-structured storage
- module is under development, and will provide fast checkpointing of small
- transactions.
-
- Texas is beta software, and the current prerelease version supports only
- simple single-machine operation. Future releases will support client-server
- operation, a flexible access control scheme, and transaction support.
-
- Texas currently runs under SunOS and ULTRIX, using Sun CC or GNU C++.
- Porting to other modern systems (e.g., OS/2, WNT, Mach) should be easy---it
- requires only mprotect(), signal(), and sbrk() calls (or their equivalent)
- to control virtual memory protection setting and trap handling.
-
- Papers about the pointer swizzling scheme and Texas itself (referenced
- below) are available via anonymous ftp from cs.utexas.edu (IP address
- 128.83.139.9), as postscript files swizz.ps and texaspstore.ps in the
- directory pub/garbage.
-
- The source code for Texas is also available, in the directory
- pub/garbage/texas.
-
- References:
-
- Paul R. Wilson and Sheetal V. Kakkad, "Pointer Swizzling at Page Fault
- Time: Efficiently and Compatibly Supporting Huge Address Spaces on Standard
- Hardware," Proc. Second Int'l. Workshop on Object Orientation in Operating
- Systems, Sept. 1992, Dourdan, France, pp. 364--377.
-
- Vivek Singhal, Sheetal V. Kakkad, and Paul R. Wilson, "Texas: an Efficient,
- Portable Persistent Store", Proc. Fifth Int'l. Workshop on Persistent Object
- Systems, Sept. 1992, San Miniato, Italy, pp. 11-33.
-
-
- >42 OSE C++lib
-
- From: Graham.Dumpleton@nms.otc.com.au (Graham Dumpleton)
- Date: Tue, 9 May 1995 08:58:55 +1000 (EST)
-
- OSE is a collection of programming tools and class libraries for C++. The
- core of the environment is the C++ class libraries, of which three are
- provided. These are:
-
- OTCLIB - A library of generic components, including support for error
- handling, error message logging, error recovery, program debugging,
- memory management, resource management, generic collections, text
- manipulation, date/time, operating system interfacing and event driven
- systems.
-
- OUXLIB - A library of components which primarily extends classes in the
- OTCLIB library to support features specific to the UNIX operating
- system.
-
- OTKLIB - A library of components which builds on the OTCLIB and OUXLIB
- libraries to allow integration of the TCL/TK library into applications
- using the event driven systems framework provided by the OTCLIB
- library.
-
- The C++ libraries are portable to a wide range of C++ compilers on the
- UNIX platform. Supported C++ compilers include those from ATT/USL (CFRONT),
- CenterLine, DEC, HP, IBM, Lucid, ObjectStore, SGI (CFRONT), SGI (DELTA),
- Sun (CFRONT) and Sun (NATIVE), as well as the freely available GNU C++
- compiler. If your C++ compiler does not support templates, it is possible
- to use a template preprocessor which is supplied with OSE. If your C++
- compiler support exceptions, they will be used. Portability to all the
- major variants of UNIX has been achieved. Supported platforms include AIX,
- BSD, HPUX, IRIX, Linux, NeXT, OSF, SCO, Solaris, SunOS, SYSV and Ultrix. In
- addition to being available under UNIX, the OTCLIB library has been ported
- to DOS, OS/2 and Windows NT using Borland, Watcom and Microsoft C++
- compilers.
-
- The C++ libraries have been fully integrated with the ObjectStore OODBMS,
- allowing instances of classes from the C++ libraries to be made persistent.
- The C++ libraries can also be used in conjunction with applications using
- Versant, although in this case instances of classes from the C++ libraries
- cannot be made persistent.
-
- In addition to the C++ libraries, a build environment is provided. The
- build environment greatly simplifies the writing of makefiles, making the
- the task of building applications, as well as the generation and
- installation of both static and shared libraries easy. The details of
- template instantiation for many of the C++ compilers is also hidden, making
- it possible to write makefiles which are portable between different C++
- compilers as well as different platforms. The build environment also
- supports tasks such as schema generation for the ObjectStore and Versant
- OODBMS, and testing of applications using tools such as Purify, Quantify,
- PureCoverage, TestCenter and Sentinel.
-
- Comprehensive documentation for the C++ libraries and build environment is
- provided. Documentation for the C++ libraries comes in the form of a UNIX
- style manual page for each class and higher level documentation giving
- examples of how to use the classes. The UNIX style manual pages are
- generated from the class header files using documentation extraction tools.
- These tools are provided with OSE and are capable of generating both UNIX
- style manual pages and Frame documents.
-
- Development of OSE commenced in 1990, being made freely available via the
- Internet in 1993. OSE was winner of CODA'94, the ComputerWorld Object
- Developer Awards, held in conjunction with ObjectWorld in Sydney,
- Australia. The category in which OSE was a winner was "Best implementation
- of a reusable development environment for company deployment".
-
- OSE (source code and documentation) can be obtained via anonymous ftp from:
-
- Europe:
-
- ftp.th-darmstadt.de [130.83.55.75]
- directory pub/programming/languages/C++/class-libraries/OSE
-
- United States
-
- -- looking for new site
-
- Australia:
-
- cbr.dit.csiro.au [192.41.146.1]
- directory pub/SEG/ose
-
- Documentation for OSE is also available online via WWW at:
-
- http://www.telstra.com.au/docs/ose/doc/ose-home.html
-
- Questions regarding OSE can be sent to;
-
- ose@nms.otc.com.au
-
- A mailing list for discussion of OSE, and a mail server providing a list of
- known problems and fixes also exists.
-
- OSE is made freely available by Dumpleton Software Consulting Pty Limited.
- OSE contains licensed program materials which are the copyright of Telstra
- Corporation Limited and which are licensed to Dumpleton Software Consulting
- Pty Limited by Telstra Corporation Limited.
-
- >43 Traces,kiczales,MOP,DI
-
- From: gregor@parc.xerox.com (Gregor Kiczales)
- Subject: Re: Dynamic Objects
- In-Reply-To: rjh@geodesic.com's message of 25 Aug 93 21:52:56 GMT
- Message-ID: <GREGOR.93Sep3093506@calvin.parc.xerox.com>
- Organization: Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
- References: <16C357BF0.MFARMER@utcvm.utc.edu> <1993Aug25.215256.8031@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 3 Sep 93 09:35:06
-
- Earlier in this series of messages, Craig Chambers and others mentioned
- his ECOOP'93 paper on predicate classes, which provide a powerful handle
- on some of the problems that have been mentioned in this series of
- messages, specifically, how dynamic changes to an object or its context
- can be harnessed to reliably effect the object's (message receipt)
- behavior. As I see it, predicate classes are a key step towards solving
- one of the most frustrating problems of OO programming: the struggle
- over whether to encode some difference among objects in the value of a
- slot (that is one of its parts) or in the object's `method table' (class
- or that which it is one-of).
-
- A closely related problem, that has also come up in this series of
- messages, is how so-called factory objects can dynamically select the
- behavior of the objects they create. We have developed a new OO
- language concept called Traces, that can be used to make much more
- powerful factory objects, as well as handle some of the things predicate
- classes do. The two ideas are similar in that they both make behavior
- selection a much more dynamic phenomena.
-
- My ISOTAS'93 paper presents the concept of Traces and shows it
- application to some problems. This paper is available for anonymous FTP
- from ftp.parc.xerox.com, in the /pub/mops directory. The file is
- traces.ps.
-
- Gregor
-
- Following is the abstract from the paper:
-
- Object-oriented techniques are a powerful tool for making a system
- end-programmer specializable. But, in cases where the system not only
- accepts objects as input, but also creates objects internally,
- specialization has been more difficult. This has been referred to as
- the ``make isn't generic problem.'' We present a new \oo{} language
- concept, called traces, that we have used successfully to support
- specialization in cases that were previously cumbersome.
-
- The concept of traces makes a fundamental separation between two kinds
- of inheritance in \oo{} languages: inheritance of default implementation
- -- an aspect of code sharing; and inheritance of specialization, a
- sometimes static, sometimes dynamic phenomenon.
-
-
- >44 C++ coding standard
-
- From: metz@iam.unibe.ch (Igor Metz)
- Subject: Re: C++ coding standard
- Organization: Dept. of CS, University of Berne, Switzerland
- Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1993 07:08:21 GMT
-
- euagate.eua.ericsson.se (Internet Address: 134.138.134.16)
- ~ftp/pub/eua/c++/rules.ps.Z
-
- [Also an archive site. E.g. Coplien includes a dir of C++ examples]
-
-
- >45 Kala Archive
-
- From: sss@world.std.com (Sergiu S Simmel)
- Subject: Kala White Paper now available via anonymous ftp
- Message-ID: <CD4MyB.Hsn@world.std.com>
- Organization: Penobscot Development Corporation, Cambridge MA
- Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1993 07:18:11 GMT
-
- An 8-page paper providing an overview of what Kala is and what Kala is
- for is now available, in PostScript format, in the Kala Archive. The
- file is accessible, via anonymous FTP, at the following location:
-
- anonymous@world.std.com:/pub/kala/TechDocs/Overview.ps
-
- The outline is the following
-
- 1 What is Kala For?
- 2 Software Infrastructure
- Persistent Data and Persistent Stores
- 3 Data Transfer
- 4 Data Visibility
- Changing Visibility
- Sharing Visibility
- Transactions
- Versions
- 5 Runtime and Architectural Models
- 6 Relationship to Other Technologies
-
- This paper is targeted towards those who don't know anything about
- Kala and would like to find out a bit in 10 pages or less.
-
- Enjoy!
-
- P.S. For those of you who do not have FTP access and would like to
- obtain this file, please send a brief e-mail message to
- info@Kala.com, requesting that the file be e-mailed to you.
- Beware that the file is approximately 425Kbytes long (the paper
- contains 13 illustrations!).
-
-
- >46 BeBOP(seq,par,LP,OO,meta)
-
- From: ad@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Andrew Davison)
- Subject: BeBOP v.1.0 Available
- Message-ID: <9325614.15552@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
- Organization: Department of Computer Sci, University of Melbourne
- Follow-Up: comp.parallel
- Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1993 04:08:41 GMT
-
- BeBOP and bp Version 1.0 now available
- ======================================
-
- What is BeBOP?
- ==============
- The language BeBOP is a unique combination of sequential
- and parallel Logic Programming (LP), object oriented
- programming and meta-level programming.
-
- The LP component offers both don't know non-determinism
- and stream AND-parallelism, a combination not possible
- with concurrent LP languages.
-
- BeBOP's object oriented features include object IDs,
- encapsulation, message passing, state updating, and
- object behaviour modification.
-
- The meta-level capabilities are based on the treatment
- of Prolog theories as first order entities, which
- enables them to be updated easily, and for fragments
- to be passed between objects in messages.
-
- BeBOP is implemented by translation down to NU-Prolog,
- and its parallel extension, PNU-Prolog. An unusual
- aspect of this is the way that object IDs are utilized
- as a communication mechanism between objects.
-
- What is bp?
- ===========
- The bp interactive interpreter supports BeBOP programming
- by allowing the flexible invocation of objects, and
- offering the means for setting up communication links
- between objects at any time. An incidental benefit is
- the ability to use `global' variables in queries. Since
- bp is an augmentation of the NU-Prolog np system, objects
- and Prolog goals can be combined, and a by-product is
- that the floundering of Prolog queries is avoided.
-
-
- Where are they?
- ===============
- The BeBOP system (BeBOP and bp), and the PNU-Prolog
- preprocessor pnp, can be found at the anonymous ftp
- site munnari.oz.au (128.250.1.21), in the directory
- pub as the file bebop.tar.Z. Remember to use binary
- mode when copying it.
-
- The release comes with a user manual, several papers
- (in Postscript format), sample programs, and source code.
-
-
- System requirements
- ===================
- The BeBOP system requires the following:
-
- * The NU-Prolog system, compiler and interpreter
- * The pnp preprocessor
- (this is included as part of the BeBOP system release)
- * GCC or similar compiler
- * Yacc (or Bison) and Lex
-
-
- For more details, contact:
- ==========================
- Andrew Davison
- Dept. of Computer Science
- University of Melbourne
- Parkville, Victoria 3052
- Australia
-
- Email: ad@cs.mu.oz.au
- Fax: +61 3 348 1184
- Phone: +61 3 287 9172 / 9101
- Telex: AA 35185
-
-
- >47 Knowledge Media, Massive cd-rom, lots of freeware
-
- A "Resource Library" of cd-rom discs . CDs for language/OS, graphics, multi-
- media, mega-media (3), and audio. "Gathered from the resources of the
- Internet, CompuServe, Genie, BIX, and other BBS's". Some shareware. Should be
- available at your local software store.
-
- From the back of the Languages CD:
-
- 'Over 100 Languages'
- ...
-
- This is the largest collection of compilers, interpreters, libraries, and
- source code for standard and experimental computer languages and operating
- systems ever assembled. A must for anyone interested in computer programming,
- this disc is just right for everyone, whether he or she is a researcher,
- student, or an interested hobbist.
-
- Knowledge Media Inc.
- Paradise, CA 95969 USA
-
-
- >48 u++, C++ Trans. and Concry RTS
-
- From: nat@nataa.frmug.fr.net (Nat Makarevitch)
- Subject: Re: 'Concurrent Objects' - Suggestions needed
- Date: 10 Oct 1993 02:41:15 GMT
- Organization: LIVIA
-
- u++ - uC++ Translator and Concurrency Runtime System
-
- DESCRIPTION
- The u++ command introduces a translator pass over the
- specified source files after the C preprocessor and before
- the actual C++ compilation. The translator converts sev-
- eral new uC++ constructs into C++ statements. The u++
- command also provides the runtime concurrency library,
- which must be linked with each uC++ application.
-
-
- REFERENCES
- uC++: Concurrency in the Object-Oriented Language C++, by
- P.A. Buhr, G. Ditchfield, R.A. Stroobosscher, B.M.
- Younger, C.R. Zarnke; Software-Practise and Experience,
- 22(2):137--172, February 1992. This paper describes uC++
- v2.0, which has been significantly extended.
-
- The uC++ system is available via anonymous FTP
- from watmsg.UWaterloo.ca:pub/uSystem. A license agreement
- is required to use uC++.
-
-
- >49 Real Time
-
- From: dstewart+@cs.cmu.edu (David B Stewart)
- Subject: Re: Object-Oriented Systems and Realtime
- Organization: The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
- Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1993 16:51:19 GMT
-
- In article <1993Oct11.082519.23058@cs.tcd.ie>,
- Chris Zimmermann <czimmerm@cs.tcd.ie> wrote:
- >Hi community:
- >
- >What is the state of the art concerning real time in
- >object-oriented systems (if any)? By this, I mean the
- >marriage of more or less traditional real time systems
- >(including systems concerned with "soft" real time aspects
- >like multimedia) with the OO paradigm.
- >[...]
-
- We've done significant work in that area. Check out the following tech
- report:
-
- D. B. Stewart, R. A. Volpe, and P. K. Khosla, "Design of Dynamically
- Reconfigurable Real-Time Software using Port-Based Objects,"
- Carnegie Mellon University Tech Report #CMU-RI-TR-93-11, July 1993.
-
- Abstract: The current development of applications for sensor-based
- robotic and automation (R&A) systems is typically a `one-of-a-kind'
- process, where most software is developed from scratch, even though
- much of the code is similar to code written for other applications.
- The cost of these systems can be drastically reduced and the capability
- of these systems improved by providing a suitable software framework
- for all R&A sys tems. We describe a novel software framework, based on
- the notion of dynamically reconfigurable software for sensor-based
- control systems. Tools to support the implementation of this framework
- have been built into the Chimera 3.0 Real-Time Operating System. The
- framework provides for the systematic development and predictable
- execution of flexible R&A applications while maintaining the ability to
- reuse code from previous applications. It combines object-oriented
- design of software with port-automaton design of digital control
- systems. A control module is an instance of a class of port-based
- objects. A task set is formed by integrating objects from a module
- library to form a specific configuration. An implementation using
- global state variables for the automatic integration of port-based
- objects is presented. A control subsystem is a collection of jobs
- which are executed one at a time, and can be programmed by a user.
- Multiple control subsystems can execute in parallel, and operate
- either independently or cooperatively. One of the fundamental concepts
- of reconfigurable software design is that modules are developed
- independent of the target hardware. Our framework defines classes of
- reconfigurable device driver objects for proving hardware independence
- to I/O devices, sensors, actuators, and special purpose processors.
- Hardware independent real-time communication mechanisms for
- inter-subsystem communication are also described. Along with providing
- a foundation for design of dynamically reconfigurable real-time
- software, we are also developing many modules for the control module,
- device driver, and subroutine libraries. As the libraries continue to
- grow, they will form the basis of code that can eventually be used by
- future R&A applications. There will no longer be a need for developing
- software from scratch for new applications, since many required modules
- will already be available in one of the libraries.
-
- This report is available via anonymous FTP as follows:
-
- % ftp IUS4.IUS.CS.CMU.EDU (128.2.209.143)
- Name: anonymous
- Password: yourname@yourmachine
- ftp> binary
- ftp> cd /usr/chimera/public
- ftp> get CMU_RI_TR_93_11.ps.Z
- ftp> quit
- % uncompress CMU_RI_TR_93_11.ps.Z
- % lpr CMU_RI_TR_93_11.ps (must be a postscript printer)
-
- For more information, 'finger chimera@cmu.edu'.
-
- >50 Ada95 (compiler, GNU)
-
- From: stt@spock.camb.inmet.com (Tucker Taft)
- Subject: Re: which language to use ...?
- Organization: Intermetrics, Inc.
- Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1993 23:22:42 GMT
-
- >[...]
-
- Also, there is a preliminary release of a GNU-GCC-based Ada 9X
- compiler available from NYU on cs.nyu.edu in pub/gnat/...
- The front end is written in Ada itself; the back end
- is the usual GCC back end (enhanced as appropriate).
-
- S. Tucker Taft stt@inmet.com
- Intermetrics, Inc.
- Cambridge, MA 02138
-
-
- >51 OO Course Slides
-
- From: wellerd@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu (David Weller)
- Subject: Re: Slides on OOP or OMT wanted
- Organization: Sigma Software Engineering, Inc.
- Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1993 11:01:44 EST
-
- In article <2bdot7$3nr@news-rocq.inria.fr> ziane@lolita.inria.fr (Mikal Ziane (Univ. Paris 5 and INRIA) ) writes:
- >
- >Hello netters,
- >
- >Is anybody aware of public domain slides available on an ftp site ?
- >I'd like slides on OO programming or OO design methods (esp. OMT).
- >I know I am crazy to ask for that but someone told me he saw
- >a very good C++ course on some ftp site ! (he does not remember which one
- >unfortunatemy)
- >
-
- It's true! On WUArchive (wuarchive.wustl.edu) there is a series of
- slides developed in Microsoft's PowerPoint. The course material
- includes lesson plans, tests, and workbooks, along with full notes
- accompanying each slide.
-
- There's one _little_ catch -- it's in the Public Ada Library. Now,
- the OOP course (there's three courses, one on OOD, OOP, and Software
- Engineering) covers both C++ and Ada. It was designed to let the
- students work in both languages to get an objective opinion of the
- pluses and minuses of each language (gee, what a concept!).
-