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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,aef4913dd6741a38 X-Google-Thread: 113ae9,aef4913dd6741a38 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,gid113ae9,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsread.com!news-xfer.newsread.com!newspeer.monmouth.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!feed.news.tiscali.de!news.belwue.de!news-stu1.dfn.de!news-koe1.dfn.de!news.uni-bonn.de!not-for-mail From: Stefan Schulz Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.java.help Subject: Re: ADA vs Java Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 13:20:22 +0200 Organization: HRZ - University of Bonn (Germany) Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: pptp-212-201-72-107.pptp.stw-bonn.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: f1node01.rhrz.uni-bonn.de 1119093622 45440 212.201.72.107 (18 Jun 2005 11:20:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@uni-bonn.de NNTP-Posting-Date: 18 Jun 2005 11:20:22 GMT User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2 (This is not a psychotic episode. It's a cleansing moment of clarity.) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11467 comp.lang.java.help:17725 Date: 2005-06-18T11:20:22+00:00 List-Id: On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 10:23:32 +0200, Pascal Obry wrote: > > Eric Sosman 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. -- In pioneer days they used oxen for heavy pulling, and when one ox couldn't budge a log, they didn't try to grow a larger ox. We shouldn't be trying for bigger computers, but for more systems of computers. --- Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper