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: 1999/12/14 Message-ID: <38561D9A.70B61403@acenet.com.au>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 560475168 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <82p7hu$l1q$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <82ppc9$1u6$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <385252E8.FF140CD2@acenet.com.au> <8333q3$9rh$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8335ip$b8f$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 945167754 203.35.118.1 (Tue, 14 Dec 1999 21:35:54 EST) Organization: Customer of Telstra Big Pond Direct MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 21:35:54 EST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-12-14T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Aidan Skinner wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Dec 1999 16:06:54 GMT, reason67@my-deja.com > wrote: > > >You have the freedom to choose to use Java under the > >restrictions put on it by Sun. In that sense, just about anything is free! > One of the major things about Ada that I prefer over Java is that it's > standardised, and that that standard is freely available. > - Aidan (who would, frankly, be lost without the LRM and refers to it > more often than any of his text books) Me too. But Java is standardised too. There is a language specification for the core language. The libraries are extensively documented, so that can be considered a standard. And of course, the JVM has a standard. All of these standards are freely available on the net. Does it really matter whether they are Sun standards or ISO standards? I agree it affects who has power over the language, but in either case that power doesn't lie with me! I have lots of reasons for preferring Ada over Java, ISO standardisation is a long way down the list. Cheers Geoff