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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5cb36983754f64da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-04-07 02:35:08 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!dialin-145-254-036-136.arcor-ip.NET!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: No call for Ada (was Re: Announcing new Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 11:34:53 +0200 Organization: At home Message-ID: References: <7KKdnc7J3eIV8O7dRVn-hg@gbronline.com> Reply-To: mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de NNTP-Posting-Host: dialin-145-254-036-136.arcor-ip.net (145.254.36.136) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1081330506 92351081 I 145.254.36.136 ([77047]) User-Agent: KNode/0.7.2 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6804 Date: 2004-04-07T11:34:53+02:00 List-Id: Wes Groleau wrote: > Alexander E. Kopilovich wrote: >>>But why they adopted Java? It was the same combination of luck and >>>marketing Randy Brukardt wrote about. > > It was certainly not just luck. Yes, it was luck and marketing! > Sun was trying to produce a particular device. > They had all sorts of problems, since they were > using C. One of them decided to create a language > that would prevent those problems. The reason Java > still has some of the deficiencies of C is that > being experienced programmers, they didn't fall into > those particular traps as easily, and therefore had > less motivation to fix them. > > Java would have disappeared after delivery of that > product had not some one noticed, "Hey, if we hype > a little, maybe even lie a little, we could probably > sell this language!" Absolutely. And this reinforces the point: technical issues are practically irrelevant when it comes to decision making. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov www.dmitry-kazakov.de