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From: pontius@btv.ibm.com (Dale Pontius)
Subject: Re: What good is Ada ???
Date: 1997/01/10
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In article <E3pqFr.7zC@thomsoft.com>,
        kst@aonix.com (Keith Thompson) writes:
> In <19970107014700.UAA14671@ladder01.news.aol.com> wolfmtnrch@aol.com (WolfMtnRch) writes:
> [...]
>>                                                             And if that's
>> not good enough, I know of one Ada95 vender whose compiler will generate
>> Java.
>
> To be precise, it generates Java bytecode, not Java.
>
> It's unfortunate that the high level language Java and the low level
> (typically interpreted) byte code to which it is typically compiled are
> referred to by the same name.  There's no necessary relationship between
> the two.

There is a dialog of Rexx called NetRexx that compiles to Java
bytecodes. Just another existance supporting your point.

Dale Pontius
(NOT speaking for IBM)