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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b97c7c85f1aa5c9c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: nospam@- Subject: Re: improved type checking mafr Java popular, why not Ada also? Date: 2000/08/05 Message-ID: <8mgle1$14pv@drn.newsguy.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 654718334 References: <8mfjf0$2erb@drn.newsguy.com> <398B7684.8CA71CB7@maths.unine.ch> Organization: - Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-08-05T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On related issue http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/~eddie/java.considered.fancy.html "Java has been adopted as an introductory language by several teaching institutions, including our own, The Norwegian University of Science and Technology. The usual motivation seems to be, among other things, static typing for catching errors early, object-orientation and the motivational value of a language so closely connected to the Web. Also, Java seems to be selected on basis of its alleged "simplicity", a conception mostly due to its automatic storage management and abstract references. These factors do contribute to inhibit the haywire achievable i n low-level languages, but the fact that they have been removed does not mean that the real problems have been handled."