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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,563d1b715d872ad1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-07 16:59:52 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!lnsnews.lns.cornell.edu!news.litech.org!news.ems.psu.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!intgwpad.nntp.telstra.net!news-server.bigpond.net.au!not-for-mail From: Dale Stanbrough Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: why? US Army Ada software converted to C++? Organization: RMIT References: <061020011935502631%demery@cox.rr.com> <7xTv7.11227$IY3.8208030@news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com> <20011007141253.G6134-100000@shell5.ba.best.com> <3BC0D083.546674E5@worldnet.att.net> User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.1 (PPC) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2001 23:59:51 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 144.132.82.11 X-Complaints-To: news@bigpond.net.au X-Trace: news-server.bigpond.net.au 1002499191 144.132.82.11 (Mon, 08 Oct 2001 09:59:51 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 09:59:51 EST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:13880 Date: 2001-10-07T23:59:51+00:00 List-Id: James Rogers wrote: > Not Perl, but there has been movement toward Java. About 3 years ago the Australian Ministry of Defence said they were moving away from Ada to Java. Perhaps a long sighted view, but at the time it was a total joke, given the primitive nature of the Java tools/implementations back then. Dale