[OT] Ada gems

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On Tuesday, 14 October 2014 at 19:49:08 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> Am 14.10.2014 um 17:30 schrieb eles:
>> On Tuesday, 14 October 2014 at 14:56:53 UTC, eles wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, 14 October 2014 at 13:52:24 UTC, eles wrote:


> consistency between 3rd party libraries. Java has spoiled me

While I agree with all this, I think the reason for Java's 
developing smoothness is not portability as such, but the 
unitarity of it.

This is exactly how Bjarne puts it: "Java is not portable over 
platforms, Java is *a platform*."

Which is quite true, might it be not interesting for some 
applications. In a way is just like one would brag about Windows 
apps portability on the grounds that all operating systems 
support Virtualbox...