Re: Java and Ada ISO standardization

[Charles Hixson <charleshixson@earthling.net>]

Considering that the alternative was Microsoft fragmenting the standard
definition, well...
It might not be all that one could hope for, but I feel that it would be
rash to characterise it as a mistake.

Tucker Taft wrote:
> 
> Markus Kuhn (Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk) wrote:
> 
> : ...
> : 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?
> 
> We are very interested in providing input to the JVM standardization
> effort, and have informed various folks at Sun to that effect.
> However, Sun's idea of an "open" standardization process is that they
> produce the draft standard, and then let you send them e-mail comments, and
> then they produce the final standard.  There is no indication of which
> comments were considered, and no serious interaction with the various
> interested parties.  Allowing Sun to be the submitter of the
> Java-related standards was a big mistake, IMHO.
> 
> : ...
> : Markus
> 
> : --
> : Markus G. Kuhn, Security Group, Computer Lab, Cambridge University, UK
> : email: mkuhn at acm.org,  home page: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>
> 
> --
> -Tucker Taft   stt@inmet.com   http://www.inmet.com/~stt/
> Intermetrics, Inc.  Burlington, MA  USA

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