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: fdb77,87f933acb1db70e3 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,f0cea1b3e44d2132 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony) Subject: Re: Java is not the right language Date: 1996/09/06 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 178980253 sender: news@organon.com (news) references: organization: Organon Motives, Inc. newsgroups: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-09-06T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <322EA52F.69A0@gsfc.nasa.gov> Mike Stark 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 -- Jon Anthony Organon Motives, Inc. 1 Williston Road, Suite 4 Belmont, MA 02178 617.484.3383 jsa@organon.com