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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1116ece181be1aea X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-15 09:46:47 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!news.uunet.ca!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is the Writing on the Wall for Ada? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 12:31:57 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1063643502 198.96.223.163 (Mon, 15 Sep 2003 12:31:42 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 12:31:42 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:42530 Date: 2003-09-15T12:31:57-04:00 List-Id: Stephane Richard wrote: > Here's my perception. This is from the many messages that exist in this > thread, since I'm responding to many comments that were made, I just decided > to put it here in the hierarchy of messages pertaining to this thread. > > If the millitary switches to Java, it will shoot itself in the foot. > Especially if they expect the same kind of: > > a. Performances (Java is slower than Ada, in many places I consider > essential) > b. Readability and Udnerstandability of Code > c. Any kind of standard. A datatype is NOT an object and Java thinks it > is. What to make of that? drop in performances automatically. > > Many Java projects I did in the first release of Java I basically gave up on > when the JDK 2 came out....what qbout JDK3, 4 or 5 when they pop up? Well, even if we all agreed that is true, the very thing that concerns me (if the article is accurate in this), is that they have made it a goal to get away from Ada. It doesn't matter if it makes sense or not. If someone sets out with a goal in mind, at some point, and in some way, they're going to try to make it work. It seems that they think that Real Time Java is going to help, if we are to believe the writer. Then again, who knows if this is truly their goal? Perhaps it was the writer's interpretation of things that he has observed. He didn't exactly quote anyone on that, IIRC. Anyway, I hope the best for Ada. Maybe Ada200Y will give it a significant boost in the right direction. -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg