Re: Concurrency

[Rod Price]

Martin J. Maiers wrote:
> 
> >
> > as an afterthought). Only one fulfills these conditions: Ada (Java is a
> > special web-oriented small language, which has borrowed some Ada
> > constructs).
> 
> Not exactly.
> 
> Java is absolutely not a web-oriented language (althout it
> is small, like all good languages should be).  The fact that Java
> works well on the web speaks for its design "write once, run everywhere".
> Java was actually in development (under another name) before the
> web craze.
> 
> BTW, I find Java's exception handling capability at least comparable
> to ADA's.
> 

At TRW, we've run benchmarks on equivalent Java and C++ programs
using a clustering algorithm (i.e. classifying points in a high-
dimensional space by their distance from one another).  We found
that the best JVM's (JIT compilers) run only 10% slower than the 
equivalent C++ code.  

This indicates to me that Java is becoming a very viable general-
purpose language.  Yes, the language designers borrowed constructs
from C++, Ada, Smalltalk, etc, but that's a plus, not a minus.

-Rod Price
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