Re: Ada and Java/C++

[Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com>]

On Monday, August 27, 2012 4:46:33 AM UTC-6, kalvi...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Java is a very popular language along C/C++. Ada has fine qualities for writing robust code, that Java and c/C++ languages are missing. It seems that Ada and other Pascal family of languages are not popular among programmers because programmers consider Pascal as a toy language suitable only for academic purposes, and Ada has also a burden of being DoD language and being complex, slow etc.
> 
> The idea that came to my mind was that if Ada language is implemented in syntax similar to Java and C++, this might attract more programmer to adapt Ada. 

Well, there's a big problem here. Much of the safety/robustness comes from the syntax. the easy/trivial example is that Ada has no problem with the dangling-else problem precisely because its syntax requires "end if;"

> This would mean creating Jada (Java-Ada) an/or Cava (C-Ada) languages, that look like Java/C++, but actually they are Ada. So, no matter what language programmer would use Ada/Jada/Cava, the result would be the same - robust code which has all Ada's good features.

Why not just target the JVM with your Ada compiler?

> 
> Any comments on this?

Aside from those given? Not really.