Re: Java is not the right language

[Dave Wood <dpw@thomsoft.com>]

I might also point out that this capability is now 
commercially available, integrated with the new 
ObjectAda for Windows Professional Edition.

-- Dave Wood
-- Product Manager, ObjectAda for Windows (and Java)
-- Thomson Software Products
-- http://www.thomsoft.com



Mike Stark wrote:
> 
> Bert THOMPSON wrote:
> >
> > ben@documenta.com.au (Benjamin Hardy) writes:
> >
> > |Alexander Anderson <sandy@almide.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > |>
> > |>    Still, I would prefer Ada to C++ any day.
> >
> > |How is this discussion of Ada relevant?
> > |Has somebody written an Ada bytecode compiler or something?
> 
> As a matter of fact, somebody has.  Intermetrics has a beta version
> of AppletMagic that can be downloaded from the WWW which does
> precisely that.  I have been playing with it and have been impressed.
> In principle, you should be able to extend Ada tagged types with
> Java classes and vice versa.  In practice, the documentation with
> the beta is much more helpful in developing Ada programs using the
> Java APIs than in integrating Ada code into Java applications or
> applets.  At this point, we have successfully integrated an Ada
> package and made it callable by Java, but we haven't quite got the
> hang of how to extend Ada types into Java classes (but I think I'm
> close ;).
> 
> The real news, however, is that the product seems to be very solid.
> The only problems I've had have been due to the beta not imple-
> menting a feature, or incomplete (beta-ish) documentation.  The
> system itself works well and provides good diagnostic messages when
> you have a source code error.
> >
> > |It reminds me of this old humorous article about programming languages
> > |and the programmers that stereotypically would use them.
> >
> > |It said something like "Ada programmers are neurotic people who carefully
> > |line up sharp pencils on an otherwise clear desk", or something to that
> > |effect. Not too bad. I won't repeat what it said about COBOL... :-)
> >
> > Ha ha. Very droll.
> >
> > <<stuff defending Ada for large projects deleted>>
> Bert -- where's your sense of humor,man!!??  I think the joke gets at
> the larger truth that when someone is developing systems that will
> land airliners you *want* that neurotic (I prefer the term "attention
>  to detail", myself) attitude.  It helps the number of takeoffs equal
> the number of landings, always a desirable characteristic!
> 
> Mike (an Ada user who can take a joke)
> >
> > Bert