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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.237.38.227 with SMTP id q90mr2815574qtd.19.1465591321238; Fri, 10 Jun 2016 13:42:01 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.157.14.228 with SMTP id 91mr63606otj.11.1465591321195; Fri, 10 Jun 2016 13:42:01 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!p34no5216118qgp.1!news-out.google.com!107ni188qgx.1!nntp.google.com!p34no5216114qgp.1!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 13:42:00 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <621e5847-240e-4b6f-8a2a-8ee0820823a2@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=2601:191:8202:8510:5985:2c17:9409:aa9c; posting-account=fdRd8woAAADTIlxCu9FgvDrUK4wPzvy3 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2601:191:8202:8510:5985:2c17:9409:aa9c References: <866e6e94-6e49-4b73-8840-9d0987254253@googlegroups.com> <621e5847-240e-4b6f-8a2a-8ee0820823a2@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: why is java so widespread when ada is free? makes 0 sense From: rieachus@comcast.net Injection-Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 20:42:01 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:30689 Date: 2016-06-10T13:42:00-07:00 List-Id: On Friday, June 10, 2016 at 1:51:55 AM UTC-4, Patrick Jakubowski wrote: > Well. To simply say. Ada was so much ahead of its time that it missed its= window of opportunity. In one sense very, very true. There were a lot of discussions--and eventua= lly existence proofs about Ada compilers running on machines with 256k byte= s of memory. (In some cases, 128 words of addressable memory.) In additio= n, early Ada compilers were not as smart about compilation orders as they h= ave become since. I won't go into PC family memory and addressing, just say that the Alsys co= mpiler which came with a memory card--and the software to make it run on 80= 286 based machines--was by far the best (but expensive) Ada solution for PC= s. It was quite a while before you could assume that a PC-compatible machi= ne was running in 32-bit mode with virtual memory. In that gap, Java was sold as "write once, run anywhere" and it could in fa= ct be installed on most PCs whatever their CPU and memory organization.