Ada for the JVM - publicity
Ehud Lamm
(http://www.objectwatch.com/issue_33.htm), resulted in a list of only eight
"Possibly Commercial Languages (non-Java) ." of these eight, two (25%) are
Ada compilers. Alas, the the article goes on to say:
<quote>
* AppletMagic, a compiler of Ada 95. I was unable to get any information on
this product.
* JGNAT, another compiler of ADA 95 from Ada Core Technologies. I spoke to
Nancy Cruz at Ada Core Technologies who told me this work was funded by the
Defense Department. She promised me a list of customers using this product
within 15 minutes, but, as of press time (five days later) has not followed
through.
</quote>
It would be great to learn more here, if not from the web page, about real
world users.
It may also be worthwhile, marketing-wise, to have that page updated with
more information.
--
Ehud Lamm msl...@mscc.huji.ac.il
Samuel T. Harris
>
> An analysis of various language tools targetting hte JVM
> (http://www.objectwatch.com/issue_33.htm), resulted in a list of only eight
> "Possibly Commercial Languages (non-Java) ." of these eight, two (25%) are
> Ada compilers. Alas, the the article goes on to say:
>
> <quote>
> * AppletMagic, a compiler of Ada 95. I was unable to get any information on
> this product.
A simple search via goto.com yields many references, the first
of which takes me directly to the appropriate one. I guess the
author had better things to do.
>
> * JGNAT, another compiler of ADA 95 from Ada Core Technologies. I spoke to
> Nancy Cruz at Ada Core Technologies who told me this work was funded by the
> Defense Department. She promised me a list of customers using this product
> within 15 minutes, but, as of press time (five days later) has not followed
> through.
> </quote>
Since the author could not take the time to an search for appletmagic,
it is not surprising that he would not take time to check-back with
references. Note that ACT was not the only source which "failed"
to respond before press time.
>
> It would be great to learn more here, if not from the web page, about real
> world users.
> It may also be worthwhile, marketing-wise, to have that page updated with
> more information.
>
> --
> Ehud Lamm msl...@mscc.huji.ac.il
--
Samuel T. Harris, Senior Software Engineer II
Raytheon, Aerospace Engineering Services
"If you can make it, We can fake it!"
Gary Scott
actually written in REXX rather than Java (it's so much easier).
Ed Falis
>
> Ehud Lamm wrote:
> >
> > An analysis of various language tools targetting hte JVM
> > (http://www.objectwatch.com/issue_33.htm), resulted in a list of only eight
> > "Possibly Commercial Languages (non-Java) ." of these eight, two (25%) are
> > Ada compilers. Alas, the the article goes on to say:
> >
> > <quote>
> > * AppletMagic, a compiler of Ada 95. I was unable to get any information on
> > this product.
>
> A simple search via goto.com yields many references, the first
> of which takes me directly to the appropriate one. I guess the
> author had better things to do.
I sent the author a note yesterday describing how both AppletMagic and
JGNAT fulfilled his list of requirements for language-neutrality on the
JVM.
- Ed
Ehud Lamm
fault here.
Ehud
Ehud Lamm
Gary Scott <Gary.L...@lmtas.lmco.com> wrote in message
news:3B8D39F3...@lmtas.lmco.com...
> Of notable absence also is REXX. A large percentage of Mainframe JBC is
> actually written in REXX rather than Java (it's so much easier).
That would be NetRexx, I assume.
Ehud Lamm