Re: ADA vs Java

[Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)]

In article <pan.2005.06.18.11.20.22.386912@spacetime.de>, Stefan Schulz <terra@spacetime.de> writes:
> On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 10:23:32 +0200, Pascal Obry wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Eric Sosman <eric.sosman@sun.com> writes:
>> 
>>>     (In other words: Are there any objective data to support
>>> the opinion that either Ada or Java is "more reliable" than
>>> the other?  Surveys, experiments, studies, ...?)
>> 
>> Probably SUN has. The license quote explicitly that Java MUST NOT be used to
>> control nuclear power plant for example. No Ada vendors are saying that Ada
>> must not be used for safety critical projects. Don't you think this is
>> related to safety/reliability ?
> 
> It merely means that they want to be absolutely positively sure that noone
> will sue them over a bug in the compiler. IIRC, you will find a similar
> clause in Mircosofts C/C++ Compilers license es well.

"Sue them over a bug in the compiler" certainly seems related to
safety/reliability.  I doubt the suit would be over trademark misuse.

I am not sure how the statement about Microsoft C/C++ is related.
The question was about Ada vs. Java.  So which Ada compilers have
such a restriction ?