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,f495c7652c09dd8c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Samuel Mize Subject: Re: Does this model work ? Date: 1999/05/20 Message-ID: <7i17ug$1u1k@news2.newsguy.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 480160055 References: <373e38e2.31311363@news2.ibm.net> <7hmcu1$k8g$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <37412e95.34501560@news2.ibm.net> <7ho4f8$nn4$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3741754f.964957@news2.ibm.net> <37419180.3A5AB46F@hso.link.com> <37426e11.4648444@news2.ibm.net> Organization: ImagiNet Communications, Ltd. User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-981002 ("Phobia") (UNIX) (AIX/3-2) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-05-20T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Jean-Marten Marchi wrote: > On Tue, 18 May 1999 11:12:48 -0500, "Samuel T. Harris" > wrote: > >>An Ada to JVM compiler gives me a single product which can >>be universally distributed (well, almost universally :) and >>can even be run from a remote web site. The need for more >>efficient implementations for specific customers does not >>negate the need for universal distribution. > > Why can't you have the best of both solutions, as long as you > distribute source code ? I have enough hassles keeping the compilers *I* want around, let alone having to maintain a bunch of compilers on my machine for languages I don't like and don't want, just in case a web page I want to see has an applet written in COBOL. Java byte-code is at an excellent abstraction level for distribution of things that most people want to run without modifying. The developer can use whatever tool he wants, and then I can run it without having that tool. 8000 compilers can all be targeted to the same byte code format, and a consumer can run the results without having any of them. >From the point of view of a consumer who wants to be able to modify a program, source code is the way to go. Best, Sam Mize -- Samuel Mize -- smize@imagin.net (home email) -- Team Ada Fight Spam: see http://www.cauce.org/ \\\ Smert Spamonam