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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, SUBJ_ALL_CAPS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,9e20292f693f1408 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) Subject: Re: ADA CORE TECHNOLOGIES ANNOUNCES GNAT-TO-JAVA SYSTEM Date: 1997/09/22 Message-ID: <60504d$33c$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 274416311 References: <34196E8E.1790@gsfc.nasa.gov> <341B2309.4A41@ibm.net> <34204085.5377@ibm.net> <5vt73c$3nk$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. NNTP-Posting-User: ok Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-09-22T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: jsa@alexandria.organon.com (Jon S Anthony) writes: >This sounds very interesting. Would you or anyone else post a >reference from where one can "suck-it-and-see"?? The Juice home page is http://www.ics.uci.edu/~juice/ The inventor of Slim Binaries is Michael Franz, whose PhD thesis on the subject is available from ftp://ftp.inf.ethz.ch/pub/publications/dissertations/th10497.ps.gz The crucial point here that makes "Uncol" an utterly inappropriate stick to beat Slim Binaries with is that they aren't universal. You need a _different_ Slim Binary format for each different language. To translate Ada to Juice format, for example, would not just be as hard has source translation to Oberon, it would _be_ source translation to Oberon. This is both a strength and a weakness, but then, what isn't? -- Unsolicited commercial E-mail to this account is prohibited; see section 76E of the Commonwealth Crimes Act 1914 as amended by the Crimes Legislation Amendment Act No 108 of 1989. Maximum penalty: 10 years in gaol. Richard A. O'Keefe; http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/%7Eok; RMIT Comp.Sci.