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: 103376,3ccb707f4c91a5f2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: vsnyder@math.jpl.nasa.gov (Van Snyder) Subject: Re: Java vs Ada 95 (Was Re: Once again, Ada absent from DoD SBIR solicitation) Date: 1996/11/22 Message-ID: <5759a5$l7i@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 198153852 references: content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-11-22T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes: >"To be fair though, I'll count "portability of arithmetic" as a Java advantage." > >Hmmm! I thought that Java left overflow undefined, I don't call that >portable! If you want good arithmetic in a Java competitor, look at Inferno, from AT&T Lucent Technologies. I don't have the URL in my head, and I'm not with my records, but if you're interested, send me e-mail and I'll try to find it. Or, look for Eric Grosse in the white pages at www.netlib.org. There's a "stack" of related products: Inferno is the language. Limbo is the virtual machine. Styx is the transport protocol. Dis is the operating system. There are several implementations, including ones that run atop DOS, Unix, or bare x86 hardware. -- What fraction of Americans believe | Van Snyder Wrestling is real and NASA is fake? | vsnyder@math.jpl.nasa.gov