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,ac39a12d5faf5b14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-11 11:09:37 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Development process in the Ada community Date: 11 Apr 2002 11:09:36 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <4519e058.0204111009.609078dc@posting.google.com> References: <3CB46975.90408@snafu.de> <3CB516E1.9030008@snafu.de> <3CB583D6.9000104@worldnet.att.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.115.221.98 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1018548576 16482 127.0.0.1 (11 Apr 2002 18:09:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 11 Apr 2002 18:09:36 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22376 Date: 2002-04-11T18:09:36+00:00 List-Id: Jim Rogers wrote in message news:<3CB583D6.9000104@worldnet.att.net>... > principles of the Java language. Java has always advertised the > concept of "write once, run anywhere". One consequence of this > goal is that Java could not support OS specific behavior, since > that behavior could not be implemented anywhere. The java.nio > package abandons that goal and implements I/O features not found > on all OS platforms. It also provides an I/O model which is > incompatible with the I/O defined in the java.io package. > > This is an example of rapid change without regard to its effect on > the overall language principles. I do not want to see such rapid > development results applied to Ada. Java's Swing is another good example of this. AWT was found inadaquate as a GUI toolkit, so they just kept it and started over from scratch with Swing. But lots of old code uses AWT, so it can't go away. Instead you now have the new standard GUI and the old stardard GUI, left in as a trap for the unwary. -- T.E.D. Home - mailto:dennison@telepath.com (Yahoo: Ted_Dennison) Homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html