In message <7xr5heufhb....@ruckus.brouhaha.com>, Paul Rubin wrote: > Java has considerably greater reputation for reliability than C or C++.
Wonder why Sun’s licence explicitly forbade its use in danger-critical areas like nuclear power plants and the like, then? > Ada is a different story, but Ada programs (because of the application > area Ada is used in) tend not to use a lot of dynamic memory allocation > in the first place. A little googling shows there are GC extensions > available for Ada, though I don't know if they are used much. Let’s put it this way: the life-support system on the International Space Station is written in Ada. Would you trust your life to code written in Java? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
