From: dan@milliways.org (Dan Bailey)
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 95 08:55:00 PST
To: fc@all.net
Subject: Re: Suggestion for CP browser
Message-ID: <199512031655.QAA25843@pop01.ny.us.ibm.net>
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On Sun, 3 Dec 1995 07:05:06 -0500 (EST) you wrote:

>I think a CP browser is just the ticket to change the way the world works.
>How about this:
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>	- Funds produced go to support worthy causes, support a permanent
>		home for CP, and support anti GAK efforts (lobying, etc.)

A while back it was mentioned here that Eric Hughes set up Cypherpunk
Labs, Inc, and it was supposed to provide scholarships to
crypto-minded students and offer computational resources for those
late-night factoring sessions.  Did anything ever happen with that?  I
could use a scholarship about now...;)

>
>I think the CP browser should include an embedded language (not Java -
>maybe a version of LISP) that does a far better job than Java of assuring
>limitations on what programs can do.  It should also support faking the

I think Java is going to become a standard to run with.  It's pretty
close to C, so it isn't hard to pick up and it performs acceptibly. 
While I don't mind coding in LISP or Scheme, I think most programmers
in the trenches would rather fight than recurse.
						Dan

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