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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fee8802cc3d8334d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 10a146,fee8802cc3d8334d X-Google-Attributes: gid10a146,public From: falis@ma.aonix.com (Ed Falis) Subject: Re: Ada and Java. different behaviour. casting long to int problem. Date: 1999/06/17 Message-ID: <1103_929648803@DZOG-CHEN>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 490792547 Sender: news@sd.aonix.com (USENET News Admin @flash) X-Nntp-Posting-Host: 192.157.137.130 References: <7jt2c0$vrb@drn.newsguy.com> <7k57vb$1ipf@drn.newsguy.com> <3766650F.705125B7@pwfl.com> <7k64t7$igo$1@its.hooked.net> <7k689a$ci2@drn.newsguy.com> <3766C842.E1EAB60A@pwfl.com> <3766D1CC.D712895E@itools.symantec.com> <7k8nn5$qcb$1@its.hooked.net> <3767E8A2.EF1A0570@itools.symantec.com> <7k8tv3$3gm@drn.newsguy.com> <37680F83.4426B424@itools.symantec.com> <7kbbk8$hej$2@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk> <7kbfdi$23r0@drn.newsguy.com> Organization: Aonix, San Diego, CA, USA Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.java.programmer Date: 1999-06-17T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On 17 Jun 1999 11:39:46 -0700, john@smith.nospam.com wrote: > > So, unless Ada can come up with a set of libraries that come bundled > with your GNAT compiler and ready to use and can match the > functionalitites of those provided by Java, I am afraid Ada will > not have a chance of attracting programmers away from Java or away > from C++. > > Even the C++ programmers now are asking to port the Java JDK > libraries to C++ ! Well, JDK 1.1 has been available for JVM targeted Ada applications for what, 2 years now? It's available for Ada native applications using AdaJNI for compilers on Windows and various UNIXes. And I've generated a Java 2 binding for AdaJNI as well, which'll be publicly available in the not too distant. Only drawback is that you have to fire up a JVM to run the stuff. But that doesn't bother people using JAva, so ... - Ed