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From: nabbasi@pacbell.net.NOSAPAM
Subject: improved type checking mafr Java popular, why not Ada also?
Date: 2000/08/04
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Date: 2000-08-04T00:00:00+00:00
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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... "