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From: xanthian@well.com (Kent Paul Dolan)
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Subject: Re: real-time Java
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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.