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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fdb77,87f933acb1db70e3 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,f0cea1b3e44d2132 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Dave Wood Subject: Re: Java is not the right language Date: 1996/09/07 Message-ID: <3230C346.48D9@thomsoft.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 179029034 sender: news@thomsoft.com (USENET News Admin @flash) x-nntp-posting-host: wood2 references: <50llg6$min@demeter.omen.com.au> <50m48s$1o3@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> <322EA52F.69A0@gsfc.nasa.gov> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Thomson Software Products mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.lang.ada x-mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win95; I) Date: 1996-09-07T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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 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. > > > > <> > 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