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: 189076197 references: <325BC3B3.41C6@hso.link.com> <325D7F9B.2A8B@gte.net> <325FFB39.15A4@io.com> organization: New York University newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-10-12T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Dave Jones says "An excellent idea Robert -- except for one big problem: Engineers who are trying to build reliable, commercial products don't generally like to use proucts which are still in beta." Then they surely will stay away from Java. Even the language design must be considered to be still under test, let alone the implementation! I'll tell you a little secret: whether something is in beta status has very little to do with its quality. Microsoft has sometimes released products as initial releases so full of bugs that they could not even be reasonably considered to be ready for beta testing. On the other hand, some products, such as the final beta versions of NT 4.0, were in excellent shape in beta stage. A lot of the reason that the Intermetrics product is still in beta status is that it is incomplete, but even in its incomplete status, it still has a lot more capability than a native Java compiler.