From: nabbasi@pacbell.net.NOSAPAM
Subject: improved type checking mafr Java popular, why not Ada also?
Date: 2000/08/04
Date: 2000-08-04T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8mfjf0$2erb@drn.newsguy.com> (raw)
I thought the Ada programmers will get a kick out of this statment,
makes one wonder why it worked for Java and not for Ada?
http://www.cs.mdx.ac.uk/harold/papers/javaspae.html
"A critique of Java
Harold Thimbleby
Middlesex University
....
Java has become very popular largely because its
of its improved type checking, its run time array
bound checks, and its removal of explicit
pointers: all these improvements can be understood
as converting traps in C and C++ into barriers in
Java: thus helping programmers write more robust programs... "
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2000-08-04 0:00 nabbasi [this message]
2000-08-05 0:00 ` improved type checking mafr Java popular, why not Ada also? Larry Kilgallen
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