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,dc94fe39f71093ec X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Geoff Bull Subject: Re: The revolution will not be standardized Date: 1999/12/12 Message-ID: <385252E8.FF140CD2@acenet.com.au>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 559350082 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <82p7hu$l1q$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <82ppc9$1u6$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@telstra.net X-Trace: nsw.nnrp.telstra.net 944919285 203.35.118.1 (Sun, 12 Dec 1999 00:34:45 EST) Organization: Customer of Telstra Big Pond Direct MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 00:34:45 EST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-12-12T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Ed Falis wrote: > > Once we have the 1001+ amazing standard API's Since Java is now free, in the monetary sense, we have 1001+ amazing standard APIs simply by calling Java's APIs. We just need an easy standard way of doing this. A bit of compiler support (e.g. circular references) would make building bindings easier. >and figure out how to get the > cool factor. Haven't ever managed to do that last one myself. Me neither. Mind you, Java programmers think Ada's package renaming is cool, especially when someone changes the name of a package in a library. (there is a good reason for doing this) Cheers Geoff