Re: What good is Ada ???

[kst@aonix.com (Keith Thompson)]

In <19970107014700.UAA14671@ladder01.news.aol.com> wolfmtnrch@aol.com (WolfMtnRch) writes:
[...]
>                                                             And if that's
> not good enough, I know of one Ada95 vender whose compiler will generate
> Java.

To be precise, it generates Java bytecode, not Java.

It's unfortunate that the high level language Java and the low level
(typically interpreted) byte code to which it is typically compiled are
referred to by the same name.  There's no necessary relationship between
the two.

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