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From: goetz@cs.buffalo.edu (Phil Goetz)
Subject: Re: New ADVSYS (DROOL) in Dr. Dobbs
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Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1993 00:51:02 GMT
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In article <27a9av$gqk@apple.com> unknown@apple.com (Matt Ackeret) writes:
>	Dr. Dobbs magazine has an article about David Betz' update to 
>ADVSYS, called DROOL [Dave's Recycled Object Oriented Language]..  I haven't
>read the article yet [I don't get the magazine, I'll read a friend's].. but
>I know it gives an ftp site as well as other methods for finding the source.

The principal difference is that DROOL allows the construction of
multiple inheritance hierarchies.  So you can construct a "+5 sword"
which inherits properties of both weapons and magic items.

Phil goetz@cs.buffalo.edu
