Re: From extended Pascals to Ada 95 guide

[Gary Scott <Gary.L.Scott@lmtas.lmco.com>]

My company is now developing several projects using Java.  The end
product typically is not up to snuff from a usability standpoint.  It is
extremely slow and sluggish and the quality of the graphic rendering is
typically below the native OS applications in visual quality.

$0.02

Charles Hixson wrote:
> 
> David Starner wrote:
> 
> > On 28 Aug 2000 22:20:19 -0700, <nabbasi@pacbell.net.NOSPAM> wrote:
> > >Well, generics are nice, but Java do not have them, and it seems
> > >that half the world now program in Java. So, I do not think that Borland
> > >delphi not having generics is such a big deal for most people.
> >
> > How I hate Java. I can't believe how all the programmers who would
> > slam Pascal and Ada for "bondage and discipline" turn around and
> > use this language that doesn't do procedural programming, doesn't
> > do generic programming, and doesn't have goto's. The fact that Java
> > doesn't have generics says more about Java then the value of generics.
> 
> But what it does have is:
> a) Garbage Collection
> b) Standardized Screen Drawing library  --  portable!
> c) Standardized Print formatting library -- portable!
> If it weren't for jGnat, then Ada would be impossible for many applications.
> And that's still quite new.  I'm really hoping that it will develop into
> something really smooth, but so far I haven't given it a thorough test.
> (It's nice to see that the new edition of Gide supports it though.)  And it
> (supposedly, I haven't tested!) allows seamless integration between Ada
> native and jvm programs.  Even without that, at least one wouldn't need to
> pay the overhead for using handles just because the abstract type wasn't
> primitive.  But again, the public release version is 1.0, so if you are doing
> commercial work, you had probably best purchase a support contract.
> 
> -- (c) Charles Hixson
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