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From: jmarten@ibm.net (Jean-Marten Marchi)
Subject: Re: Does this model work ?
Date: 1999/05/17
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On Mon, 17 May 1999 04:03:52 GMT, Robert Dewar
<robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com> wrote:

>In article <37412e95.34501560@news2.ibm.net>,
>  jmarten@ibm.net (Jean-Marten Marchi) wrote:
>> Don't you think that something practical and useful could be
>> done inside the GNU project?
>
>Sorry, perhaps it is a language problem, but that question is
>quite incomprehensible to me. The GNU project has devoted itself
>to producing practical and useful software!
>
>> 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
>
>
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Ok, apparently it's more difficult for me to explain myself in English
than i imagine and will try to do some progress.

What i want to explain is, that the compile and link processes are not
especially user friendly.

Imagine that something does this automatically at the user's place.

I believe you would have achieved the same goals as Java (write once,
run everywhere) with some advantages (optimization for the user's
platform, no need of a VM).

I *feel* that the pieces of the puzzle are there (source code
availability, Ada portabiity, compilers, linkers, etc ... ),  but it
lacks  something. Something that would make Ada more than a -very good
- computer language. Something a la Oberon ?

Thanks for your time (and your indulgence) .