From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,52a0bacbcdd2da17 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-08-14 06:29:50 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!feed2.news.rcn.net!rcn!nntp.abs.net!ash.uu.net!spool.news.uu.net!not-for-mail Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 09:29:49 -0400 From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030611 Thunderbird/0.1a X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Realtime/embedded project to help with employment. References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: KBC Financial Products Message-ID: <1060867789.259883@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> Cache-Post-Path: master.nyc.kbcfp.com!unknown@nightcrawler.nyc.kbcfp.com X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.253.250.10 X-Trace: 1060867789 26994 204.253.250.10 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:41449 Date: 2003-08-14T09:29:49-04:00 List-Id: Robert C. Leif wrote: > Sun is now sinking because its brilliant marketing of > Java did nothing to help its operating system, Solaris, > which is still in C and C++. In fact, they have not even > replaced the Sparc microprocessor with a J chip. My, what a unique point of view. Linux, which is not sinking, is written in C. There are tens or hundreds of thousands of programs which run on Solaris and are written in C and C++. Sun's customers wouldn't run to embrace a J chip. They would run to embrace one of the competitors' machines.