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: 103376,3ccb707f4c91a5f2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Stephen Leake Subject: Re: Java vs Ada 95 (Was Re: Once again, Ada absent from DoD SBIR solicitation) Date: 1996/10/11 Message-ID: <325E452E.265C@gsfc.nasa.gov>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 188730964 references: <325BC3B3.41C6@hso.link.com> <325D7F9B.2A8B@gte.net> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- Greenbelt, Maryland USA mime-version: 1.0 reply-to: Stephen.Leake@gsfc.nasa.gov newsgroups: comp.lang.ada x-mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; U) Date: 1996-10-11T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Dave wrote: > > Garbage collection, by itself, is significant enough for one to > seriously consider choosing Java over Ada for projects which do not > require low-level timing control. The Ada _language_ supports garbage collection, just as the Java _language_ does. The Java Virtual Machine implements it, while most Ada runtimes do not. Intermetrics AppletMagic uses the JVM garbage collection with Ada95. People do get confused :-) > -- Dave Jones -- - Stephe