From: jsa@alexandria.organon.com (Jon S Anthony)
Subject: Re: An interesting quote on Java and C++
Date: 1997/09/12
Date: 1997-09-12T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <JSA.97Sep11205034@alexandria.organon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: EG9rCz.5pH@world.std.com
In article <EG9rCz.5pH@world.std.com> bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff) writes:
> Beats me. But it's clear from the Java language documents that two
> goals of Java are (1) avoid security flaws, and (2) portability at the
> cost of efficiency.
>
> Ada meets neither of those goals. (1) Ada allows dangling pointers and
> so forth, and (2) Ada's arithmetic model favors efficiency over
> portability.
However, the real odd thing is that Java doesn't meet these goals
either. At least not at last count...
/Jon
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1997-09-03 0:00 An interesting quote on Java and C++ Nasser
1997-09-03 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
[not found] ` <01bcb881$915526a0$d7000064@sim01.amst.co.at>
1997-09-03 0:00 ` Robert Munck
1997-09-05 0:00 ` Joachim Schroeer
1997-09-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-24 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
1997-09-08 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-09-09 0:00 ` Robert Munck
1997-09-10 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-09-10 0:00 ` Robert Munck
1997-09-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-12 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-09-18 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
1997-09-19 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-09-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-22 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-09-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-10-03 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1997-09-12 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-09-10 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1997-09-11 0:00 ` Roy Grimm
1997-09-12 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-09-12 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony [this message]
1997-09-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-12 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-09-12 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
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1997-09-25 0:00 Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96
1997-09-25 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
1997-09-26 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1997-10-07 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1997-11-19 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
1997-10-08 0:00 Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96
1997-10-09 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
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