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Subject: Re: Ada and Java. different behaviour. casting long to int problem.
Date: 1999/06/17
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In article <7kbbk8$hej$2@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>, mgk25@cl.cam.ac.uk says...
 
>
>I consider Ada95 and Java to be the by far most interesting
>production programming languages around in 1999 (as opposed to
>experimental academic languages). 

It seems though that Java has by far the more complete standard
library. This fact, many would consider, is much more important
in the commerical world, than considerations related to basic
language issues.

Success of a computer language seems to depend more on the availability
of standard and well tested libraries that can be very easily used
by the language in question. With Java, we have libraries that comes
bundled with the Sun JDK that makes building applications in Java in 
many domain just a matter of block building.

You can not do that in C or Ada or even C++ C++.  Even C++ newset library
is a child play in terms of functionalities provided compared to what 
the JDK contains. Check the JDK 2.0 platform and see what kind of
packages come with it. It is an amazing collection.

So, unless Ada can come up with a set of libraries that come bundled
with your GNAT compiler and ready to use and can match the
functionalitites of those provided by Java, I am afraid Ada will
not have a chance of attracting programmers away from Java or away
from C++.

Even the C++ programmers now are asking to port the Java JDK
libraries to C++ !

cheers,
John.