From: "Ted" <noaddress@fuspammer.com>
Subject: Re: ADA vs Java
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 12:15:52 GMT
Date: 2005-06-19T12:15:52+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yldte.20306$K5.8729@newsfe4-win.ntli.net> (raw)
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"Dale King" <DaleWKing@insightbb.nospam.com> wrote in message
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> The Wogster wrote:
> > Ted wrote:
> >
> >> Writing code in ADA 95 and compiling it for the JVM should produce more
> >> reliable code than writing in Java 2. Does anyone know any good
technical
> >> reasons for prefering Java?
> >>
> >
> Ada is a much stricter compiler and has much stronger typing ....it is
harder to get
> things to compile ... but when it did compile it was much more
> likely to be correct when executed.
>
> The problem with translating Ada or other languages to Java is that the
> JVM lacks certain constructs that are part of other languages. The
> simplest example would be that Java lacks unsigned numerical types in a
> size other than 16 bits.
>
OK, the JVM has certain limitations one would have to restrict oneself to a
subset of ADA. Wouldn't ADA code still be moire reliable than code written
in Java 2?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-19 12:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-16 20:32 ADA vs Java Ted
2005-06-16 20:49 ` Eric Sosman
2005-06-18 8:23 ` Pascal Obry
2005-06-18 11:20 ` Stefan Schulz
2005-06-18 12:13 ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-06-18 21:46 ` HansF
2005-06-20 6:47 ` Preben Randhol
2005-06-18 14:09 ` Pascal Obry
2005-06-18 21:40 ` HansF
2005-06-19 6:42 ` Pascal Obry
2005-06-19 22:19 ` HansF
2005-06-20 6:30 ` Pascal Obry
2005-06-20 17:13 ` Alan Krueger
2005-06-20 18:43 ` Pascal Obry
2005-06-20 22:31 ` HansF
2005-06-21 7:56 ` Preben Randhol
2005-06-21 9:47 ` Leif Roar Moldskred
2005-06-21 16:23 ` Preben Randhol
[not found] ` <20050621162315.GA1983@pvv.org>
2005-06-21 16:27 ` Preben Randhol
2005-06-21 16:48 ` Pascal Obry
2005-06-21 17:08 ` HansF
2005-06-21 17:15 ` Preben Randhol
[not found] ` <20050621171549.GA3144@pvv.org>
2005-06-21 17:23 ` Preben Randhol
2005-06-21 17:25 ` Pascal Obry
2005-06-21 22:59 ` Ada " Björn Persson
2005-06-22 7:38 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-06-22 13:31 ` HansF
2005-06-20 6:49 ` ADA " Preben Randhol
2005-06-16 21:25 ` David Alex Lamb
2005-06-16 21:28 ` HansF
2005-06-16 22:44 ` Mark Lorenzen
2005-06-16 23:08 ` HansF
2005-06-16 23:26 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-06-17 6:46 ` Preben Randhol
2005-06-16 23:38 ` Björn Persson
2005-06-17 13:10 ` The Wogster
2005-06-17 14:24 ` Preben Randhol
2005-06-17 14:35 ` Martin Dowie
2005-06-18 1:42 ` Dale King
2005-06-19 12:15 ` Ted [this message]
2005-06-18 3:52 ` Steve
2005-06-18 5:44 ` small plug for #ada iirc channel Rod Kay
2005-06-20 13:15 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2005-06-20 13:16 ` Alex R. Mosteo
[not found] ` <200506181544.12149.rodkay@mullum.com.au>
2005-06-18 6:14 ` Preben Randhol
[not found] ` <20050618061402.GA1883@pvv.org>
2005-06-18 6:49 ` Rod Kay
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