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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c6e9700a33963193 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) Subject: Re: The future of Ada Date: 1999/04/01 Message-ID: <1999Apr1.110959.1@eisner>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 461616583 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: eisner.decus.org References: <36E690FA.4B9C@sandia.gov> <36fbd229.1390755@news.demon.co.uk> <36fcbe32.0@news1.jps.net> <7di6r6$bhd@drn.newsguy.com> <7diro7$1jo$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7dv54d$6vg@drn.newsguy.com> X-Trace: news.decus.org 922983003 12616 KILGALLEN [192.67.173.2] Organization: LJK Software Reply-To: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <7dv54d$6vg@drn.newsguy.com>, west@nospam writes: > In article <7diro7$1jo$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, mjsilva@my-dejanews.com says... >> > >>I can tell you that for my applications (embedded real-time systems), Ada is a >>much better fit than Java. >> >>Mike > > Then how come the rest of the world are moving to Java even in the > area of embedded systems? > > Check an article titled "Java driving a revolution in Embedded Systems" > by John Waters, in Strategic Platforms spring 99 magazine. The whole edition > is on Embedded Systems, and it is all about Java. Ada is not even mentioned. > > Some quotes It seems to me that quotes at best provde that some individuals are taking position X. Only surveys can prove "the rest of the world" is taking position X. The nature of trade publications is to seek out sources whose comments bolster the already-chosen thrust of the article. Larry Kilgallen