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,c6e9700a33963193 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: The future of Ada Date: 1999/03/27 Message-ID: <7dikuv$s8v$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 459677463 References: <36E690FA.4B9C@sandia.gov> <36fbd229.1390755@news.demon.co.uk> <36fcbe32.0@news1.jps.net> <7di6r6$bhd@drn.newsguy.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x16.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Sat Mar 27 13:03:29 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-03-27T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <7di6r6$bhd@drn.newsguy.com>, west@nospam wrote: > In article <36fcbe32.0@news1.jps.net>, "Mike says... > But nowadays, the Big one is Java. It is not C or C++. > > Ada programmers like to put C/C++ down, becuase it is > easy to do so (due to obviouse weaknesses in these > languages). But it is much harder to try to knock Java > down, which is really becomming the main language > of use out there now. This is simply not the case, very little large scale application programming is being done in Java today. There is a lot of experimentation going on, but there have been a number of spectacular failures (e.g. Corel), and it is far from clear that Java can deliver in the large scale application area. Hype does not replace actual work :-) If anyone can point to multi-million line Java programs, feel free to do so! Even examples at the few hundreds of thousands of lines would be of interest ... -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own