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,c6e9700a33963193 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Steve Quinlan Subject: Re: The future of Ada Date: 1999/03/29 Message-ID: <36FFAC73.F8B69D31@nospam.lmco.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 460397788 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <36E690FA.4B9C@sandia.gov> <36fbd229.1390755@news.demon.co.uk> <36fcbe32.0@news1.jps.net> <7di6r6$bhd@drn.newsguy.com> <7diro7$1jo$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7dj8vi$2qi@drn.newsguy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Lockheed-Martin Air Traffic Management Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-03-29T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Aidan Skinner wrote: > On 27 Mar 1999 10:45:06 -0800, west@nospam wrote: > > >Second, Java comes with packages and API's to do almost anything > > I'm working on these for Ada. > > But, you are only working on a subset, the work you are doing is not part of a compiler with support, and what is there is only advertised as working on Linux. I know, they SHOULD work with little modification elsewhere. Great for freeware users, bad for what we was being talked about here -- level of penetration of Ada in the general commercial marketplace. The very fact that Java is so new, yet has all these great libraries and that Ada has been around for years and has no such libraries, is the very point of the indictment. The fact that Ada's response is a lone individual developing freeware versions for Linux, whereas Java comes with supported standard libraries on many platforms is the very point of the indictement. Freeware is great, but companies committing their projects to a language are by and large not going to use unsupported freeware. I think what you are doing is good, but to trumpet it as an "equalizer" between Ada and Java in terms of library funtionality is a bit much. Steve