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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3ccb707f4c91a5f2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Subject: Re: Java vs Ada 95 (Was Re: Once again, Ada absent from DoD SBIR solicitation) Date: 1996/10/12 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 189015713 references: <325BC3B3.41C6@hso.link.com> <325D7F9B.2A8B@gte.net> organization: New York University newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-10-12T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Jon asks "Do any Java "the language" implementations exsit which do not target the JVM? I don't know of any, but maybe there are? If not, this GC argument is just irrelevant. If Java means JVM, and you want that (for whatever reason) then using Ada in this context will also give you GC simply because the Ada->J implementations have GC (by using the JVM GC - just like the JTL impl does)" Someone has done a front end for gcc, I don't know how usable it is. But more importantly several big companies are producting real Java compilers as oppposed to interpretive systems using JVM. Clearly this is an expected development. JVM is fine for a limited set of applications, but real compilers for Java will greatly increase the possible range of applications.