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: 103376,3ccb707f4c91a5f2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony) Subject: Re: Java vs Ada 95 (Was Re: Once again, Ada absent from DoD SBIR solicitation) Date: 1996/10/11 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 188837446 sender: news@organon.com (news) references: <325BC3B3.41C6@hso.link.com> organization: Organon Motives, Inc. newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-10-11T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article rogoff@sccm.Stanford.EDU (Brian Rogoff) writes: > I rather like it as a language, I don't see too many advantages that > Java has over Ada. Garbage collection is a big one, but some would > disagree. I don't disagree that GC is great in most circumstances. I disagree that Java has it and Ada does not in any current environment where Java "the language" is implemented. So, Java having GC in this context is just plain irrelevant. > Simplicity of the threading model might be another. It's way too primitive and low level. Some seem to think of this as simply "simpicity"... > I'm curious, what are the advantages that the Java language has over Ada 95, > in your opinion? Hype and buzz and the fact that "sheep look up". Technically? Nothing. /Jon -- Jon Anthony Organon Motives, Inc. Belmont, MA 02178 617.484.3383 jsa@organon.com