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,f3f9104dada53163 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: jsa@alexandria.organon.com (Jon S Anthony) Subject: Re: An interesting quote on Java and C++ Date: 1997/09/12 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 271746895 Distribution: world References: <5ujjvq$t4s@drn.zippo.com> <01bcb881$915526a0$d7000064@sim01.amst.co.at> <34157a82.81185415@news.mindspring.com> Organization: PSINet Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-09-12T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article 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 -- Jon Anthony OMI, Belmont, MA 02178, 617.484.3383 "Nightmares - Ha! The way my life's been going lately, Who'd notice?" -- Londo Mollari