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,FREEMAIL_FROM, 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: Charles Hixson Subject: Re: Java and Ada ISO standardization Date: 1998/05/12 Message-ID: <3558786E.7C8AAB73@earthling.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 352598981 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <35580716.605B492C@cl.cam.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Tucker Taft Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: http://extra.newsguy.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-05-12T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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: > > -- > -Tucker Taft stt@inmet.com http://www.inmet.com/~stt/ > Intermetrics, Inc. Burlington, MA USA -- Charles Hixson charleshixson@earthling.net (510) 464-7733 or chixso@mtc.dst.ca.us