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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Crazy idea: Ada for Android? (A4A?)
Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2010 12:35:54 +0000
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mockturtle <framefritti@gmail.com> writes:

> I just read an article (on a paper magazine, so no link available)
> about Android.  As I understand, Android applications are executed by
> Dalvik, a specially-tailored Java VM and that there is a converter
> from Java VM to Dalvik.  Since jgnat translates Ada to JVM... The idea
> of being able to write Android applications in Ada is too
> attractive... Do you believe that it is too ambitious a goal to try to
> bring Ada to the Android world?  (I have also a nice acronym with
> minimal clashes: A4A :-) :-) :-)

Sounds like fun!