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: ff6c8,12f4d07c572005e3 X-Google-Attributes: gidff6c8,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,12f4d07c572005e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,12f4d07c572005e3 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,12f4d07c572005e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 10db24,12f4d07c572005e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid10db24,public From: zeller@ips.cs.tu-bs.de (Andreas Zeller) Subject: Re: Ada News Brief - 96-05-24.txt [1/1] Date: 1996/05/29 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 157338644 sender: news@ips.cs.tu-bs.de (News Software) 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: Abt. Softwaretechnologie, TU Braunschweig, Germany newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.sw.components,comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.edu Date: 1996-05-29T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Richard Riehle (rriehle@nunic.nu.edu) wrote: > Java's democratic nature is a blessing for open exhange of ideas. It > would not lend itself easily to the protection of ideas. When we want > to minimize the risk of sacrificing our intellectual property through > too easy public access, nothing does the job as well as Ada. I don't get the point in here. If I have some compiled code, where's the difference in whether the source code was written in Java or Ada? If I have some bytecode for the Java virtual machine, couldn't it have been produced by some Ada compiler as well? Although there are many Java interpreters and Ada compilers, neither the Java language nor the Ada language impose a particular model of program execution (compiler, interpreter, distribution, etc.) Saying that one language has a greater risk in disclosing intellectual property is just as misleading than saying that one language is more efficient than another. These are properties of the programming and execution environment, not of the language itself. I don't see why choosing Ada or Java should make a difference here. -- Andreas Zeller (zeller@acm.org) Technische Universitaet Braunschweig, Germany