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,b97c7c85f1aa5c9c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) Subject: Re: improved type checking mafr Java popular, why not Ada also? Date: 2000/08/05 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 654768865 References: <8mfjf0$2erb@drn.newsguy.com> X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: iad-read.news.verio.net 965485500 216.44.122.34 (Sat, 05 Aug 2000 14:25:00 GMT) Organization: LJK Software NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2000 14:25:00 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-08-05T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <8mfjf0$2erb@drn.newsguy.com>, nabbasi@pacbell.net.NOSAPAM writes: > I thought the Ada programmers will get a kick out of this statment, > makes one wonder why it worked for Java and not for Ada? > > http://www.cs.mdx.ac.uk/harold/papers/javaspae.html > > "A critique of Java > > Harold Thimbleby > Middlesex University > > .... > Java has become very popular largely because its > of its improved type checking, its run time array > bound checks, and its removal of explicit > pointers: all these improvements can be understood > as converting traps in C and C++ into barriers in > Java: thus helping programmers write more robust programs... " I do not think that has much to do with Java publicity. I think Java has become very popular because of the use of the byte code engine in web browsers. I rarely encounter anyone actually compiling Java to object code, and I often encounter people who use Java but have never thought about the possibility of compiling to object code.