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,e52be218321a9138 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: JGNAT and JRE References: <1114727090.629742.263970@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <1114727090.629742.263970@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 03:07:58 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 4.240.245.113 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net 1114744078 4.240.245.113 (Thu, 28 Apr 2005 20:07:58 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 20:07:58 PDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10798 Date: 2005-04-29T03:07:58+00:00 List-Id: fabio de francesco wrote: > Now a first draft has been approved by the editor who however asked me > to provide more informations on Ada executing on Java Virtual Machine. > That was because I cited JGNAT in the article as a bytecode compiler > for JVM. He thinks that the capability to compile once and execute > everywhere there is run-time support could "convert" many software > developers (especially Java ones) to Ada. All things considered I must > agree with him, even when I'have already structured the article with > respect to the language basic features. What I've always found more impressive is the way a lot of well-designed Ada can be compiled and run on different platforms without change. -- Jeff Carter "Beyond 100,000 lines of code you should probably be coding in Ada." P. J. Plauger 26