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From: "Mike Silva" <snarflemike@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Crosstalk Article from Aonix
Date: 10 Feb 2006 13:00:18 -0800
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adaworks@sbcglobal.net wrote:
> In a recent article about safety-critical software, the author,
> an employee of Aonix, manages to avoid even one mention
> of  Ada.  He seems to be unaware that, in the safety-critical
> domain, Ada is still a much better option than Java.  In this
> kind of article one would expect at least a token nod
> in the direction of Ada from an Aonix author . C and C++
> are mentioned often. This is a rather glaring considering that
> Aonix was once an important player in the world of Ada.

I do wonder about all this real time and safety critical Java stuff.
Will it end up being a case of neither fish (not the Java everybody
knows) nor fowl (not a world-class language for RT and safety critical
work)?  I also wonder if the Java programming culture will produce good
RT and SC programmers.  And isn't that the idea, that there are all
those Java programmers out there to recruit?

I just have this vision of somebody in the 60s creating a real-time,
safety-critical version of COBOL to take advantage of all that COBOL
talent.