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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c6e9700a33963193 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: aidan@skinner.demon.co.uk (Aidan Skinner) Subject: Re: The future of Ada Date: 1999/03/28 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 460131800 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: skinner.demon.co.uk:158.152.76.219 References: <36E690FA.4B9C@sandia.gov> <36fbd229.1390755@news.demon.co.uk> <36fcbe32.0@news1.jps.net> <7di6r6$bhd@drn.newsguy.com> X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 922662593 nnrp-06:5342 NO-IDENT skinner.demon.co.uk:158.152.76.219 Organization: skinner.demon.co.uk Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-03-28T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On 27 Mar 1999 01:02:30 -0800, west@nospam wrote: >But nowadays, the Big one is Java. It is not C or C++. Java is still slow to be executed, and I certainly wouldn't want to write anything that it is time critical in an interpreted language (which is effectively what bytecode is, albiet with a very fast interpreter). Also I seem to remember somebody telling me something about problems with writing device drivers in Java, but i can't remember the specifics of it (I don't do hardware ;>). >Java is being used everywhere now. There are even webServers and application >servers written in Java. Show me one web server written in Ada. > >Why is that? Coz I've been busy doing other CoolStuff that's distracted me from writing the small webserving {front|back}end that I need for another project. Be with you in about 6 months probably. ;) - Aidan (who will now quietly slip off and runaway from the ensuing flamewar) -- "Every time I see her I want to geek..." "I say geek. If she runs then it was never meant to be. But if you talk about routers, TCP/IP and programming and she stays, she's yours until the counter flips"