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From: Brian Rogoff <bpr@shellx.best.com>
Subject: Re: ADA CORE TECHNOLOGIES ANNOUNCES GNAT-TO-JAVA SYSTEM
Date: 1997/09/16
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On 14 Sep 1997, Robert Dewar wrote:
> Ralph Paul says
> 
> <<Hold on !! Sun has the HotFlash technology still waiting to used (;-).
> I'm sure everything is going to be great once we get the benefit of this
> stuff>>
> 
> Don't get me wrong, I think that the Ada to JVM technology has great
> promise (or we would not be embarking on this project), but the idea
> of using it to get greater portability in avionics applications seems
> pushing things a bit :-)

I realize that the JVM port is motivated (quite rightly, IMO) by economic 
reasons, but I wonder if some other "intermediate form" besides byte 
codes might be better if one wanted a portable format which could then 
be compiled. 

-- Brian