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=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,be23df8e7e275d73 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-23 04:40:04 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!newsfeed.mathworks.com!oleane.net!oleane!nnrp.oleane.net!not-for-mail From: "Jean-Pierre Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Java portability (was: An Ada IDE and discussions) Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 13:26:45 +0200 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: <9jh2cv$aon$2@s1.read.news.oleane.net> References: <%cR67.1385$mz6.4505748@nnrp3.proxad.net> <9jgopl$5v6$1@s1.read.news.oleane.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhost.axlog.fr X-Trace: s1.read.news.oleane.net 995888351 11031 195.25.228.57 (23 Jul 2001 11:39:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@oleane.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 11:39:11 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10463 Date: 2001-07-23T13:26:45+02:00 List-Id: "Gerhard H�ring" a �crit dans le message news: kvqgj9.e9r.ln@gargamel.hqd-internal... > On Mon, 23 Jul 2001 10:53:36 +0200, Jean-Pierre Rosen wrote: > >This has nothing to do with Java, and all to do with the JVM. Any language > >compiled to the JVM (including and not limited to Ada) will do the same. > > > >Remember that Java is the less portable of all programming languages, since it > >runs on only one machine. It is so unportable that to run it, you must emulate > >the only machine on which it runs ! > > Native compilers for Java do exist as well. > And is the result really portable? Even for numerics on a non-IEEE machine ? Even for multi-threaded programs (that depend on the scheduling algorithm) ? -- --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr) Visit Adalog's web site at http://www.adalog.fr