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=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,325c54deb91283fd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-04-23 19:37:09 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!oleane.net!oleane!freenix!enst.fr!not-for-mail From: "Alexandre E. Kopilovitch" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada in Iraq Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 06:37:45 +0400 (MSD) Organization: h w c employees, b f Message-ID: Reply-To: "comp.lang.ada mail to news gateway" NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.enst.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: avanie.enst.fr 1051151818 24120 137.194.161.2 (24 Apr 2003 02:36:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 02:36:58 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org Return-Path: X-Mailer: Mail/@ [v2.44 MSDOS] X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: comp.lang.ada mail to news gateway List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:36454 Date: 2003-04-24T06:37:45+04:00 Bill Findlay 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.