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,f495c7652c09dd8c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: jmarten@ibm.net (Jean-Marten Marchi) Subject: Re: Does this model work ? Date: 1999/05/17 Message-ID: <3741754f.964957@news2.ibm.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 479148898 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <373e38e2.31311363@news2.ibm.net> <7hmcu1$k8g$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <37412e95.34501560@news2.ibm.net> <7ho4f8$nn4$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Trace: 17 May 1999 20:48:53 GMT, 139.92.73.71 Organization: IBM Global Services - Remote Access Mail & News Services X-Notice: should be reported to postmaster@ibm.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Complaints-To: postmaster@ibm.net Date: 1999-05-17T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On Mon, 17 May 1999 04:03:52 GMT, Robert Dewar wrote: >> I mean useful for the end user. You have one point of >> distribution and don't care about the hardware or the OS. >> However, your application is >> still optimized for your platform. > >Sorry I have no idea what you are getting at here I've been thinking to your reply, so i will try harder to explain myself. 3 years ago, Intermetrics released a product called Appletmagic if i remember well. With my favorite browser (OS/2 Web Explorer) i clicked on a page where the applet "Conways game of life" was executed. Easy and fun. Let's say that the applet was written in Ada95, compiled to Java bytecode and executed inside the OS/2 JVM. From a technical point of view it is quite impressive. But don't you think there's something wrong? The applet source code was available, the GNAT compiler for OS/2 was available, linker etc etc... Cordially,