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From: "Marin D. Condic" <mcondic-nospam@quadruscorp.com>
Subject: Re: The revolution will not be standardized
Date: 1999/12/16
Date: 1999-12-16T17:30:44+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <385921FF.FDDCCBE7@quadruscorp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 838mhs$cii$1@nnrp1.deja.com

Ted Dennison wrote:
> Anyway, *given* that Java is doomed, wouldn't it be a good idea to be
> positioning Ada as the alternative? The language itself is nearly as
> portable, in some cases moreso. The portable API functionality is a bit
> lacking, but certianly no moreso than any of the other alternatives.
> 
In the same sense that Visual Basic is "doomed"? ;-)

I think it would be useful to position Ada as a standard, portable
alternative to Java. The big problem is, as has been observed in the
past, that Ada doesn't come with fifty bazillion predefined, "standard"
classes and Ada doesn't come with a full-up, integrated development
environment. To some extent, this is changing, but it still remains a
hodge-podge collection of stuff that you have to pull together for
yourself.

What would you suggest as the strategy for positioning Ada as a
competitor to Java?

MDC
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  reply	other threads:[~1999-12-16  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-12-09  0:00 The revolution will not be standardized Ted Dennison
1999-12-10  0:00 ` Ed Falis
1999-12-10  0:00   ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-12  0:00   ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-12  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-13  0:00       ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-13  0:00         ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-12-14  0:00           ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-13  0:00     ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-13  0:00       ` reason67
1999-12-13  0:00         ` Aidan Skinner
1999-12-14  0:00           ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-14  0:00             ` reason67
1999-12-14  0:00             ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-15  0:00               ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-15  0:00                 ` Preben Randhol
1999-12-14  0:00             ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-14  0:00               ` Marin D. Condic
1999-12-14  0:00                 ` Greg Martin
1999-12-14  0:00                   ` Marin D. Condic
1999-12-15  0:00                     ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-16  0:00                       ` Marin D. Condic [this message]
1999-12-21  0:00                       ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-21  0:00                         ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-21  0:00                           ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-22  0:00                             ` Robert A Duff
1999-12-23  0:00                               ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-23  0:00                                 ` Richard D Riehle
2000-01-05  0:00                                   ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-06  0:00                                     ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-06  0:00                                     ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-06  0:00                                       ` Robert A Duff
2000-01-07  0:00                                         ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-06  0:00                                       ` Robert A Duff
1999-12-23  0:00                                 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-12-23  0:00                                   ` gnat 3.12 Michael Ben-Gershon
1999-12-23  0:00                                     ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-15  0:00                     ` The revolution will not be standardized Greg Martin
1999-12-15  0:00                   ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-14  0:00       ` Geoff Bull
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