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On Oct 25, 3:36 pm, Marco <prenom_no...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> But I do think adding the "j" to the name was a mistake, most folks
> don't care what a program is written in (unless it is too slow).

Since Java did take off, especially for education, the "j"
probably did us more good than harm.

> At the time, it seemed like Ada was being abandoned for the
> upstart Java. We never really liked the Java based version,
> because at the time, it seemed a little slow.

It was slow at first, but we had confidence in Moore's Law.
Having a more-or-less single codebase with only two installer
builds has saved us tons of development and testing time in
the long run.