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-Thread: 103376,aef4913dd6741a38 X-Google-Thread: 113ae9,aef4913dd6741a38 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,gid113ae9,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!hwmnpeer01.lga!hwmedia!news-out.ntli.net!newsrout1-gui.ntli.net!ntli.net!newspeer1-win.ntli.net!newsfe4-win.ntli.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Ted" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.java.help References: <8_Kse.61630$_o.33510@attbi_s71> Subject: Re: ADA vs Java MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 Message-ID: Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 12:15:52 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.252.12.33 X-Complaints-To: http://www.ntlworld.com/netreport X-Trace: newsfe4-win.ntli.net 1119183352 62.252.12.33 (Sun, 19 Jun 2005 13:15:52 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 13:15:52 BST Organization: ntlworld News Service Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11479 comp.lang.java.help:17744 Date: 2005-06-19T12:15:52+00:00 List-Id: "Dale King" wrote in message news:8_Kse.61630$_o.33510@attbi_s71... > 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?