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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,7b5615402713dcbb X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.66.76.201 with SMTP id m9mr115371paw.1.1346098100843; Mon, 27 Aug 2012 13:08:20 -0700 (PDT) Path: a5ni18361pbv.0!nntp.google.com!news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Shark8 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada and Java/C++ Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 12:41:41 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <8bfbf709-18ac-43cd-b037-ce47adde96c2@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.20.190.126 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1346098100 21232 127.0.0.1 (27 Aug 2012 20:08:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 20:08:20 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <8bfbf709-18ac-43cd-b037-ce47adde96c2@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=69.20.190.126; posting-account=lJ3JNwoAAAAQfH3VV9vttJLkThaxtTfC User-Agent: G2/1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: 2012-08-27T12:41:41-07:00 List-Id: On Monday, August 27, 2012 4:46:33 AM UTC-6, kalvi...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi All, >=20 > Java is a very popular language along C/C++. Ada has fine qualities for w= riting robust code, that Java and c/C++ languages are missing. It seems tha= t Ada and other Pascal family of languages are not popular among programmer= s because programmers consider Pascal as a toy language suitable only for a= cademic purposes, and Ada has also a burden of being DoD language and being= complex, slow etc. >=20 > 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.=20 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 da= ngling-else problem precisely because its syntax requires "end if;" > This would mean creating Jada (Java-Ada) an/or Cava (C-Ada) languages, th= at look like Java/C++, but actually they are Ada. So, no matter what langua= ge programmer would use Ada/Jada/Cava, the result would be the same - robus= t code which has all Ada's good features. Why not just target the JVM with your Ada compiler? >=20 > Any comments on this? Aside from those given? Not really.