Re: Java is not the right language

[jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony)]

In article <322EA52F.69A0@gsfc.nasa.gov> Mike Stark <michael.e.stark@gsfc.nasa.gov> writes:

> > |>    Still, I would prefer Ada to C++ any day.
> > 
> > |How is this discussion of Ada relevant?
> > |Has somebody written an Ada bytecode compiler or something?
> 
> As a matter of fact, somebody has.  Intermetrics has a beta version
> of AppletMagic that can be downloaded from the WWW which does
> precisely that.  I have been playing with it and have been impressed.
> In principle, you should be able to extend Ada tagged types with
> Java classes and vice versa.  In practice, the documentation with
[...]
> 
> The real news, however, is that the product seems to be very solid.
> The only problems I've had have been due to the beta not imple-
> menting a feature, or incomplete (beta-ish) documentation.  The
> system itself works well and provides good diagnostic messages when
> you have a source code error.

Yes, we are starting into this too.  It looks very good and it is
really nice to be able to move from "standard" applications to Java
apps and just reuse a lot of what you've already done.  This plus the
fact that Iona/OIS have the Orbix/Ada out there has really brought it
home that nothing interoperates as well and as smoothly among all
sorts of systems and languages as Ada95.  Nothing.  Including Java.
Hey, and its cheap too!


> Mike (an Ada user who can take a joke)

Exactly! ;-)

/Jon
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