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From: joconnor@jmpstart.com (James O'Connor)
Subject: Re: What good is Ada ???
Date: 1997/01/13
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In message <5b5f0c$18t2@mdnews.btv.ibm.com> - pontius@btv.ibm.com (Dale
Pontius)10 Jan 1997 13:08:28 GMT writes:
:>
:>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.

I thought the NetRexx class was a Java written class that translated the
NetRexx 'language' into Java source code and then fed it to the Java compiler?

:>
:>Dale Pontius

James O'Connor

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