Re: ADA vs Java

[Stefan Schulz <terra@spacetime.de>]

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.

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