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From: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman)
Subject: Re: What good is Ada ???
Date: 1997/01/07
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Date: 1997-01-07T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <19970107014700.UAA14671@ladder01.news.aol.com>,
WolfMtnRch <wolfmtnrch@aol.com> wrote:
>I'd choose ada95, everytime. Especially after reading the Java disclaimer
>that came with my new browser. Right up front it clearly states that Java
>is not "fault-tolerant". Granted a class is not controlling a missle or
>A/C but why would you deliberately choose a language so new to learn with.
>Plus, Ada95 has been approved as an international standard. And if that's
>not good enough, I know of one Ada95 vender whose compiler will generate
>Java.

Almost. AppletMagic from Intermetrics, and ObjectAda from Aonix (new
name for Thomson since their merger with IDE) can generate Java
_byte code_, not Java High Level Language. This is even better, actually -
you can write applets without stepping outside Ada. You get Ada bindings
to the Java API, so you write your code in Ada, compile it, and presto 
you've got an applet.

Mike Feldman