Re: Ada in Iraq

["Alexandre E. Kopilovitch" <aek@vib.usr.pu.ru>]

Bill Findlay <yaldnifw@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> >...
> >air traffic management (ATM).
> >...
>
>I find the idea that ATM systems might be programmed in C, C++, or
>Java quite terrifying.

Apparently gods are now against public travel by air: first they arranged 9/11,
then they sent SARS, and at last they push Java into Air Traffic Management.
But one can hope that at least there will be banners "Java Inside" on towers.

>With C and C++, at least everyone knows they are skating on thin ice.
>
>But Java has been sold as 'secure' and 'easy to use'.

Well, for "easy to use", Java provides routine multithreading for all, thereby
making even non-sequential logic easily implementable. This will permit mentally
handicapped people to participate in development of large software systems,
such as ATM. For "secure", Java is pure language, unlike Ada where those wicked
French were (and are) heavily involved. Only consider problems with Ada now,
when all those continental Europeans should be economically punished for their
lack of military enthusiasm. At the same time Java is free from such problems
- it is surely native and patriotic language, and all the secrets of its libraries
are properly hidden inside good fortresses on native soil.