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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,12f4d07c572005e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,12f4d07c572005e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: ff6c8,12f4d07c572005e3 X-Google-Attributes: gidff6c8,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,12f4d07c572005e3 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 10db24,12f4d07c572005e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid10db24,public From: stt@henning.camb.inmet.com (Tucker Taft) Subject: Re: Ada News Brief - 96-05-24.txt [1/1] Date: 1996/05/27 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 157032131 sender: news@inmet.camb.inmet.com (USENET news) x-nntp-posting-host: henning.camb.inmet.com references: <4o56db$p66@ns1.sw-eng.falls-church.va.us> followup-to: comp.lang.ada,comp.sw.components,comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.edu organization: Intermetrics, Inc. newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.sw.components,comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.edu Date: 1996-05-27T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: AdaIC (adainfo@sw-eng.falls-church.va.us) wrote: : Ada News Brief : Week Ending: May 24, 1996 : ... Tucker Taft, chief scientist of Intermetrics, Inc., : stated, "Of course they would love to see Java as the next : Ada in DoD. It's a lot of hype. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This is either a misquote, or taken out of context. I am a fan of Java, and I don't think it is just a lot of hype. Be that as it may, I do believe Ada has a number of advantages, particularly with respect to the thoroughness of the compile-time checking provided by Ada (e.g. strong type distinctions between numeric types, enumeration types, array types, etc.). For example, Java treats all "int"s as freely interconvertible, and has no separate concept of an enumeration type. This means that a Java interface communicates less information than an Ada interface, both to the reader, and to the compiler. The great thing about the Ada/Java combination is that we get the best of both worlds, getting the robust consistency checking, generic templates, enumeration types, etc., from the Ada side, while also getting garbage collection, dynamic linking, Web-browser integration, etc. from the Java side. -Tucker Taft stt@inmet.com http://www.inmet.com/~stt/ Intermetrics, Inc. Cambridge, MA USA