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From: mg@harp.camb.inmet.com (Mitch Gart)
Subject: Re: Once again, Ada absent from DoD SBIR solicitation
Date: 1996/10/10
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Stanley R. Allen (s_allen@hso.link.com) wrote:

: If you are a DoD Ada programmer, this could be your
: future.  And don't kid yourself into thinking that Java
: will be much better.  Java was designed for small
: "applets" (the diminutive of "applications"); the Java
: code I have seen so far isn't much of an advance in
: readability over C++.  And the mindset of the two
: language cultures is the same.  I shudder to think
: of what a large system in Java will look like.

I don't think you're right in dismissing Java.  It looks
superficially like C++ but is much better in many ways.
To me the choice between Ada 95 and C++ is obvious, Ada
is way better, but the choice between Ada and Java is 
very close, each language has some advantages over the other.

- Mitch "speaking for myself" Gart