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: 103376,9494b48ca8a786de X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Markus Kuhn Subject: Java and Ada ISO standardization Date: 1998/05/12 Message-ID: <35580716.605B492C@cl.cam.ac.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 352482956 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <6j0r8s$c0t$1@plug.news.pipex.net> <35578163.66A19614@cacd.rockwell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Cambridge University, Computer Laboratory Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-05-12T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Considering that Ada95 is already an ISO standard, and Java is on the way of becoming one: Is there some coordination going on between the Ada and Java standards communities? For instance: Since there are now Ada compilers that produce Java bytecode available, is someone taking care of whether the needs of Ada compilers and debuggers are taken into account when the JVM is being standardized? In case the Java GUI interface (AWT) gets ISO standardized, it would be very cool to standardize at the same time an Ada binding to it. Java and Ada are in many ways similar languages with comparable capabilities, i.e. APIs for both languages would look similar anyway. I think it would be a very good idea if the Java and Ada standardization is closely coordinated and APIs for things like GUIs are defined for both to allow code frequent reusage => cost savings. Markus -- Markus G. Kuhn, Security Group, Computer Lab, Cambridge University, UK email: mkuhn at acm.org, home page: