From: mccoy@communities.com (Jim McCoy)
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 19:27:55 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: [Noise] Re: Java
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s1113645@tesla.cc.uottawa.ca writes:
> [...](One thing that detractors of
> Smalltalk claim is that it is slow--slower than Java. However there is a
> research dialect from Sun called Self which is supposed to be 50% as fast
> as C.)

Self also give a new meaning to phrase "code bloat."  A 'Hello, world!'
that requires more than a megabyte kind of kills any enthusiasm one might
or a language which otherwise takes a neat slant message passing...
[Although I gave up before version 4.0 so maybe things have gotten better]

jim