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: fac41,f66d11aeda114c52 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,f66d11aeda114c52 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Bertrand Meyer Subject: Re: Critique of Ariane 5 paper (finally!) Date: 1997/08/08 Message-ID: <33EB754E.446B9B3D@eiffel.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 262932565 References: <33E503B3.3278@flash.net> <33E8FC54.41C67EA6@eiffel.com> <33E9B217.39DA@flash.net> <33EA5592.5855@flash.net> <33EB4935.167EB0E7@eiffel.com> Organization: Interactive Software Engineering Inc. Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.eiffel Date: 1997-08-08T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: It's impossible to have a meaningful discussion if one's arguments are distorted and misquoted. Ken Garlington wrote: > Another note regarding the Meyer attack on Java: There is no such thing as a "Meyer attack on Java". Read my postings and articles and you will see that if they "attack" something it is the idea that Java is the language to replace all languages. That's rather different. > The portability of Java is questioned [in an article > at http://www.eiffel.com/general/news] primarily by reference > to a trade article where Microsoft has "declared war" on Sun > over Java -- the implication being that Java will not be available > on Microsoft OSs (e.g. Windows). There is no such implication, which would be foolish. Microsoft has said they would not support the Java Foundation Class libraries. This does not mean they are not making Java itself available; but it does break the myth of total and automatic Java portability. There is enough room for controversy in what people actually write not to create artificial disputes about what someone else believe they think. This is just a waste of everyone's time. -- Bertrand Meyer, President, ISE Inc., Santa Barbara (California) 805-685-1006, fax 805-685-6869, Web: http://www.eiffel.com, with instructions for free download == ISE Eiffel 4: Eiffel straight from those who invented it ==