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: john@assen.demon.co.uk.nospam (John McCabe) Subject: Re: The future of Ada Date: 1999/03/27 Message-ID: <36fd1870.2422302@news.demon.co.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 459753841 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: assen.demon.co.uk:158.152.218.101 References: <36E690FA.4B9C@sandia.gov> <36fbd229.1390755@news.demon.co.uk> <36fcbe32.0@news1.jps.net> <7di6r6$bhd@drn.newsguy.com> X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 922556661 nnrp-10:26532 NO-IDENT assen.demon.co.uk:158.152.218.101 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net Date: 1999-03-27T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: west@nospam wrote: >Java is being used everywhere now. There are even webServers and application >servers written in Java. Show me one web server written in Ada. Show me one mission or safety critical web-server! > >Why is that? >Ada has been around for 20 years, while Java for only 4.5 years. >Ada is almost non-existant in the commerical world. Java is taking the >commerical world by storm. >Why is that? How come a language like Ada has been standing still >for 20 years in terms of its use in the commerical world, while C/C++/Java >and even Perl are being used by almost everyone else? Java would appear to be benefitting from looking a lot like the languages it is decended from (C/C++). It's a lot easier and safer than either of those as far as I can make out, but in particular Java was really developed for a specialist market - GUIs and web apps. Show me an embedded real-time system that has been built in Java? Best Regards John McCabe