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: 103376,21960280f1d61e84 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!news.germany.com!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!not-for-mail From: Peter Hermann Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How come Ada isn't more popular? Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:51:47 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Comp.Center (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG Message-ID: References: <1169531612.200010.153120@38g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> X-Trace: infosun2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de 1169643107 20160 141.58.7.20 (24 Jan 2007 12:51:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@news.uni-stuttgart.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:51:47 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: tin/1.7.8-20050315 ("Scalpay") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.27 (i686)) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:8479 Date: 2007-01-24T12:51:47+00:00 List-Id: Markus E Leypold wrote: > writes: > > discovered is that Java is not type safe, <...> > > How so? I'd be really intrested to know. Java adopted a type system (at least for its scalar types) which was about 20 years outdated at the time of Java's creation. There is a lack of an important layer of abstraction resulting from a C and Assembler mindset. -- --Peter.Hermann@ihr.uni-stuttgart.de (+49)0711-685-872-44(Fax79) --Nobelstr.19 Raum 0.030, D-70569 Stuttgart IHR Hoechstleistungsrechnen --http://www.ihr.uni-stuttgart.de/