cryptoanarchy.wiki

Arise, you have nothing to lose but your barbed wire fences!

1996-06-05 - Re: Java

Header Data

From: “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@piermont.com>
To: “Vladimir Z. Nuri” <vznuri@netcom.com>
Message Hash: 9f32ec179ff7c1f04aba13bba9f41f9ae213713e8a4298ac55c701f91832caf1
Message ID: <199606042238.SAA09594@jekyll.piermont.com>
Reply To: <199606042058.NAA19741@netcom19.netcom.com>
UTC Datetime: 1996-06-05 07:17:33 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 15:17:33 +0800

Raw message

From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 15:17:33 +0800
To: "Vladimir Z. Nuri" <vznuri@netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Java
In-Reply-To: <199606042058.NAA19741@netcom19.netcom.com>
Message-ID: <199606042238.SAA09594@jekyll.piermont.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain



"Vladimir Z. Nuri" writes:
> >Many languages are machine independent. Thats hardly a new feature.
> 
> you don't get it, as others have pointed out repeatedly. you conveniently
> ignore Frantz' points about the well-known difficulties of porting
> C.

Who said anything about C, Detweiler. Smalltalk. Scheme. Postscript. 
There are dozens of them out there. All of them are totally machine
independent. You could run Smalltalk images byte for byte identical on
large numbers of different processors years and years and years
ago. Byte codes aren't new either -- Smalltalk's virtual machine, PSL
and others had them decades ago.

The rest of your comments are equally silly.

Perry

Thread