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: 1999/03/27 Message-ID: <1999Mar27.164116.1@eisner>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 459813748 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> <36fd1870.2422302@news.demon.co.uk> X-Trace: news.decus.org 922570878 4154 KILGALLEN [192.67.173.2] Organization: LJK Software Reply-To: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-03-27T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <36fd1870.2422302@news.demon.co.uk>, john@assen.demon.co.uk.nospam (John McCabe) writes: > Java would appear to be benefitting from looking a lot like the > languages it is decended from (C/C++). It's a lot easier and safer > than either of those as far as I can make out, but in particular Java > was really developed for a specialist market - GUIs and web apps. Show > me an embedded real-time system that has been built in Java? Interest in Java may have developed because of that specialist market, but Sun Microsystems' Chief Science Officer addressing the RSA conference this past January indicated the Web use was just a diversion from the purpose for which Java was developed, to provide a safer language than C. He indicated interest in compiled (not bytecode) Java, but from what I have seen the great groundswell of interest in Java is not headed in that direction at all, but is much more due to the "write once, debug everywhere" use of the language. So while Java as a general language may be of interest and may be the intent of the originators, the hoopla seems to be all centered around the JVM and web applications. Larry Kilgallen