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: fdb77,ebcb336c62963fb4 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,6e940fd5ba87c3ce X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-04-11 04:43:53 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.uchicago.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!router1.news.adelphia.net!rip!c03.atl99!news.webusenet.com!news02.tsnz.net!not-for-mail From: "Tum" Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.lang.ada References: Subject: Re: real-time Java X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 23:43:48 +1200 NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.114.156.242 X-Complaints-To: abuse@tsnz.net X-Trace: news02.tsnz.net 1050061432 203.114.156.242 (Fri, 11 Apr 2003 23:43:52 NZST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 23:43:52 NZST Organization: TelstraClear Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.java.advocacy:61622 comp.lang.ada:36083 Date: 2003-04-11T23:43:48+12:00 List-Id: Check out wonka. http://wonka.acunia.com/ It's free. "Kent Paul Dolan" wrote in message news:a3eaa964.0304102210.3875f527@posting.google.com... > 18k11tm001@sneakemail.com (Russ) wrote: > > > I've been hearing a lot lately about real-time Java. I must confess > > I'm baffled about the motivation behind this endeavor. Would someone > > please tell me what real-time Java will be able to do that Ada can't > > do? Or what it will be able to do better than Ada? Thanks. > > Sure: bring a popular, thriving, employer-demanded language with a > wealth of libraries and a robust built-in GUI into the real time > arena. > > xanthian. > > How the heck you do that with a language subject to garbage collection > is going to be an interesting thing to watch happen. Some complaints > in comp.lang.java.programmer mention Java going off to stew for whole > minutes at a time.