Re: Decline?

[Georg Bauhaus <rm.plus-bug.tsoh@maps.futureapps.de>]

On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 11:00 -0700, Gene wrote:

> The Air Force Academy, also mentioned, has, I regret to say, gone over
> to the dark side.

Ignoring, for the moment, the inevitable force of
"Hey, the party is over there, now!".

What I still don't understand (from my remote point of view),
is this: some of the attractiveness of Java appears to be
connected with @Annotations and special VMs, these days.
(I understand this creates opportunities for producing more
guarantees, e.g. regarding lifetime or memory use, in many ways.)

At least a number of features of this kind seem to correspond
more or less directly with plain vanilla properties of the Ada
language. We have two compilers producing J-code from Ada source.
Using them, we'd just have to write Ada with no more int-based
array indexing, no need to ..., ... OK. Can there be any doubt that
language choice has statistically little to do with language
influences on production and maintenance, but is really just
a social, P.O.E.T.ical process?


(Problem 1 (economy). Assign weights to P, O, E, and T totaling 1.0.)

Hm. The language preference process has already found one
declared end, reportedly for Ada. Let's see whether this
Java one succeeds in becoming management's paradise.


-- Georg