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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,be23df8e7e275d73 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-01 21:38:05 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!paloalto-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!enews.sgi.com!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.rdc2.on.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3B68D92E.FD4BCD7@home.com> From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Java portability References: <9jh2cs$aon$1@s1.read.news.oleane.net> <2sU67.1485$di7.4670499@nnrp3.proxad.net> <9jhb8u$g3s$1@s1.read.news.oleane.net> <3B5C4A92.647FC2EC@earthlink.net> <2bb77.5186$DL4.5097616@nnrp5.proxad.net> <3B5D5B79.F2DC527E@earthlink.net> <3B5DCE74.C12AA2D8@earthlink.net> <1Zu77.187$EF5.315498@nnrp1.proxad.net> <9jp5eo$e2b$2@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> <9jrdl3$mh2$1@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> <%hb87.917$%w2.3730577@nnrp3.proxad.net> <9jrt62$38t$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3B619A6D.5DD6E782@home.com> <3B684F3C.3C8D2CB0@some.where> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 04:38:04 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.141.193.224 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc2.on.home.com 996727084 24.141.193.224 (Wed, 01 Aug 2001 21:38:04 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 21:38:04 PDT Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11031 Date: 2001-08-02T04:38:04+00:00 List-Id: John Doe wrote: > > > The shopper looks at the Ada car, and notices that it has seatbelts and > > of course 4 doors on it. The programmer says, but I don't want to be > > restrained from accessing the outdoors -- I go through drive-throughs > > a lot.. > > I don't really need a hood either. Slows me down getting to the engine. > It's my job, not Detroit's, to keep birds and children from falling into > it. Huh? Thieves might steal the engine? Of course not! I'll install > a security system called lint and I'll never forget to turn it on. > > -- > Wes Groleau > http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau I used lint in the old days for C. Now all the good warnings and checks are already part of GCC these days, and many newer compilers. Of course, this is not universal (HP comes to mind). Note however, lint has no advantage over a regular Ada compile. It's not even in the "running". -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://members.home.net/ve3wwg