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At 03:57 PM 27/08/01 -0700, Fuchs, Matthew wrote: >(However, as an aside on this topic, as an undergrad I had a classmate whose >summer job was writing test cases for the Ada validation suite. She assured >me [incorrectly] that it would be at least 10 years before anyone had an >approved Ada compiler. Of course, I later did grad work at NYU, where I got >to hobnob with the people who wrote that first compiler! ;-) Hmm, my memory seems to tell me that the first wave of Ada compilers were quite a bit more robust and reliable than the first few releases of Java. On the other hand, they didn't include a virtual machine. On another hand, my mental image of Java 1.0 is as of a fairly stripped down language with not a lot of fat, while Ada suffered from severe complete-ism from day one. Another victory for those who dared to do less. -Tim
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