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From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony)
Subject: Re: Java vs Ada 95 (Was Re: Once again,
 Ada absent from DoD SBIR solicitation)
Date: 1996/10/14
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In article <dewar.845147148@merv> dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:

> Jon asks
> 
> "Do any Java "the language" implementations exsit which do not target
> the JVM?  I don't know of any, but maybe there are?  If not, this GC
> argument is just irrelevant.  If Java means JVM, and you want that
> (for whatever reason) then using Ada in this context will also give
> you GC simply because the Ada->J implementations have GC (by using the
> JVM GC - just like the JTL impl does)"
> 
> Someone has done a front end for gcc, I don't know how usable it is. But
> more importantly several big companies are producting real Java compilers
> as oppposed to interpretive systems using JVM. Clearly this is an expected
> development. JVM is fine for a limited set of applications, but real
> compilers for Java will greatly increase the possible range of applications.

Well, that certainly makes things more interesting.  To be honest, I
didn't expect this so soon for various reasons.

/Jon

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