On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 06:56:02PM +0100, Philip Newton wrote: > Look at what Sun says Java is not suitable for to get a short list. IIRC > they included stuff such as life support machinery in hospitals, air traffic > control, and nuclear reactors. Space Shuttle or manned-space-flight rocket I think this is primarily because Java is not a real-time language (as in specifiable bounded time for each operation) on account of Java insisting on providing garbage collection which is almost impossible to do efficiently in real time. > control logic probably should also be bug free. <cue story="the misplaced colon in a Fortran DO loop causing Apollo ?? to crash" /> Paul
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