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From: jsa@alexandria.organon.com (Jon S Anthony)
Subject: Re: An interesting quote on Java and C++
Date: 1997/09/12
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Robert sez,

> be careful not to compare the reality of Ada with the Sun (and
> other) hype on Java. In the current state of things, Java is nowhere
> NEAR as portable as Ada, it is almost the normal case that an applet
> of any complexity written on one platform is likely not to work on
> another platform.

In our experience, this is putting the situation quite generously.
The stuff doesn't even work across releases or other JVMs on the
_same_ platform.


> Of course you can say, well that's because the implementations are
> decrepit, just wait and see, but then we are back to talking about
> implementatins and not languages.

Right (or at least I'm still willing to give them the benefit of the
doubt on this one for a while longer...)

> As for security, this is a matter of implementation, not the language.
> Indeed, there are all kinds of Java restrictions that must be adhered
> to for secure applet delivery that are not enforced by Java itself.
> And of coruse if you use an Ada->JVM system, then by definition this
> has the same level of security, since the security is implemented at
> the JVM level, not at the Java level.

Agreed.

/Jon
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