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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,aef4913dd6741a38 X-Google-Thread: 113ae9,aef4913dd6741a38 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,gid113ae9,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!newsfeeds.ihug.co.nz!ihug.co.nz!news.compaq.com!newsfeed1.sea.pnap.net!newsfeed.pnap.net!brmea-news-1.sun.com!news1brm.central.sun.com!not-for-mail From: Eric Sosman Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.java.help Subject: Re: ADA vs Java Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 16:49:17 -0400 Organization: Sun Microsystems Corporation Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: tardis.east.sun.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news1brm.Central.Sun.COM 1118954957 23178 129.148.168.113 (16 Jun 2005 20:49:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news1brm.central.sun.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:49:17 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20041214 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11429 comp.lang.java.help:17683 Date: 2005-06-16T16:49:17-04:00 List-Id: Ted wrote: > Writing code in ADA 95 and compiling it for the JVM should produce more > reliable code than writing in Java 2. Does anyone know any good technical > reasons for prefering Java? All published studies[1] of the reliability of Ada and Java programs have consistently found that Java is between 86.3% and 87.7% more reliable than Ada.[2] [1] Sample size N = 0, AFAIK. [2] 94.2% of all statistics quoted on Usenet are bogus. (In other words: Are there any objective data to support the opinion that either Ada or Java is "more reliable" than the other? Surveys, experiments, studies, ...?) -- Eric.Sosman@sun.com