From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Warning: Flame Bait
Date: 1996/11/29
Date: 1996-11-29T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.849319316@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E1nLxo.Ly3@world.std.com
Bob Duff says
"I'm not a big fan of Java, but I don't see how anyone can say that Ada
is more portable than Java. The Java language definition nails down all
kinds of things that are "implementation defined" or "unspecified" in
Ada."
Portability is MUCH more than just a question of the language definition, it
is about being able to practically port a wide range of applications from
one machine to another over a wide range of machines. Java does not yet
begin to meet either of these criteria. We have to wait to see whether
it can in the future, but right now, Java is quite limited in its reasonable
application domain in practice, and I don't see too many Java compilers for
the 1750A, let alone the 8051 :-)
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-11-27 0:00 Warning: Flame Bait Paul Whittington
1996-11-29 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-11-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1996-11-30 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-11-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-01 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-12-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-02 0:00 ` IEEE fp & Java Clayton Weaver
1996-12-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-09 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1996-11-30 0:00 ` Warning: Flame Bait Larry Kilgallen
1996-12-01 0:00 ` Tom Robinson
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