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=2.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA,
	REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Thread: 103376,6deb3e1ddefb099
X-Google-NewGroupId: yes
X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
Received: by 10.68.223.40 with SMTP id qr8mr15494445pbc.0.1337374326790;
        Fri, 18 May 2012 13:52:06 -0700 (PDT)
Path: 
 pr3ni2458pbb.0!nntp.google.com!news2.google.com!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Companies Only Offering Ada-95 Compilers
Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 15:52:00 -0500
Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server
Message-ID: <jp6cph$9pd$1@speranza.aioe.org>
References: <jp1k2n$ouo$1@adenine.netfront.net> <jp4ih4$srv$1@munin.nbi.dk>
 <jp4q52$c0d$1@adenine.netfront.net> <wcc396xip49.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com>
 <jp66vv$1jra$1@adenine.netfront.net>
 <3db3e683-8054-4d69-a3f4-8afa0b2b14c3@googlegroups.com>
 <jp69t7$2hv$1@speranza.aioe.org>
 <1992ibk3vixd0$.18ri3cfm0vnyu.dlg@40tude.net>
Reply-To: nma@12000.org
NNTP-Posting-Host: JFgm6aMVwmC/YQNQyUTYRQ.user.speranza.aioe.org
Mime-Version: 1.0
X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64;
 rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1
X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Date: 2012-05-18T15:52:00-05:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

On 5/18/2012 3:35 PM, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

>> This is the new world order of software engineering. After 50 years
>> of computer science and programming languages research, the world has
>> decided it will be Javascript and HTML5.
>
> No. Due to opening a new market the technology (rather lack of) is
> returning to the point where it was 20-30 years ago. Such retreats always
> happen when there is no pressure to improve quality or safety.
>

That is funny you said that. I was just now thinking the same
thing as I was looking at a web site that tells which browsers
supports which feature of HTML5 and Javascript.

The reason is, I remember doing the same thing many many
years ago, when I was just learning the new Java and looking
to see which operating system supports which features of Java
and such.

So, the picture has changed from

      app         app
   +----------+-----------+......
   | Java VM  |  Java VM  |
   +----------+-----------+.....
   |  OS      |   OS      |
   +----------+-----------+.....

To now, almost 20 years later to become


      HTML5/JS app   HTML5/JS app
   +--------------+--------------+.....
   |  browser 1   |  browser 2   |
   +--------------+--------------+.....
   |   OS         |    OS        |
   +--------------+--------------+.....

Well, it is progress I guess. The Java VM was replaced by
the browser, and Java is replaced by HTML/Javascript.

I can't wait to see what the picture will be 20 years from now :)

--Nasser