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: 103376,7bcba1db9ed24fa7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-07 16:59:23 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!howland.erols.net!peer.news.verio.net.MISMATCH!iad-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!iad-read.news.verio.net.POSTED!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: is ada dead? Message-ID: References: <3B460DA9.C2965042@ix.netcom.com> <9ff447f2.0107061757.34ca0723@posting.google.com> <3B475678.C582735D@worldnet.att.net> <3b478165_3@news3.prserv.net> Organization: LJK Software Date: 7 Jul 2001 19:58:21 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.44.122.34 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: iad-read.news.verio.net 994550315 216.44.122.34 (Sat, 07 Jul 2001 23:58:35 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 23:58:35 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9621 Date: 2001-07-07T19:58:21-05:00 List-Id: In article <3b478165_3@news3.prserv.net>, "Andrzej Lewandowski" writes: > > "James Rogers" wrote in message news:3B475678.C582735D@worldnet.att.net... >> Adrian Hoe, >> >> Java is clearly not superior to Ada. Java is not even clearly >> newer than Ada. Java is clearly more unstable and unsafe to use >> than Ada. >> > > But almost everybody is using Java and almost non\body is using Ada. How many of those "everybody" is using Java outside the niche of World Wide Web authoring ? Many machines don't even support a native Java compiler, just use of the Java bytecode engine.