Lionel Draghi wrote: > > Stephane Richard wrote: > > > > A agree with you that JVM is "the" strong point of Java, so when do we make > > our AVM then ? (Ada Virtual Machines) huh? > > > As stated by Jean-Pierre Rosen, Java is the less portable langage, as it > only run on a single machine! Thats why the JVM is so important... for > Java. Ada is really portable, so wouldn't the AVM be useless? I don't see a need for an AVM. However, a JVM implementation in Ada, open source and free in both senses, might be a worthwhile project if anyone cares to undertake it. It should reliably execute all existing JBC. It could also have extensions to better support Ada-to-JBC compilation. At worst it would be ignored. At best, it could become widely used, a de-facto standard, and expose more people to Ada in action. Reality, of course, confounds even prophets. -- Jeff Carter "Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time." Monty Python & the Holy Grail