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: 103376,3e2839f528cc1c40 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Jon S Anthony Subject: Re: Project: FreeOS Date: 2000/01/19 Message-ID: <38863C18.5C61@synquiry.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 574886774 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <387C8CB3.1276637F@icn.siemens.de> <85pt5a$7r8$1@ssauraac-i-1.production.compuserve.com> <3883915C.56A@Ganymede.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: client 948321322 38.151.18.1 (Wed, 19 Jan 2000 17:35:22 EST) MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 17:35:22 EST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-01-19T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Brian Rogoff wrote: > > Robert Dewar wrote an interesting opinion on why Java is a disappointment; > in a nutshell, Java forces you to pay the price of a VHLL but doesn't give > you a much higher level view of programming than C or C++, except that you > get garbage collection. I think that is a pretty good description of one aspect of Java "failure". I've tended to say that Java can't make up it's mind as to whether it is really a VHLL or just another statically typed compiled language. In many ways, _as a language_, it ends up being the worst of all possible worlds. In practice it definitely has some advantages... /Jon -- Jon Anthony Synquiry Technologies, Ltd. Belmont, MA 02478, 617.484.3383 "Nightmares - Ha! The way my life's been going lately, Who'd notice?" -- Londo Mollari