From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 23 05:37:28 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id FAA04908 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 23 Jun 1995 05:37:28 -0700 Received: from fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov (fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.131.171]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id FAA04902 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 1995 05:37:26 -0700 Received: by fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov (5.57/Ultrix3.0-C) id AA11180; Fri, 23 Jun 95 06:35:43 -0600 Received: from junco.fsl.noaa.gov by yarmouth.fsl.noaa.gov (1.38.193.4/SMI-4.1 (1.38.193.4)) id AA08280; Fri, 23 Jun 1995 12:37:13 GMT Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 12:37:13 GMT From: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) Message-Id: <9506231237.AA08280@yarmouth.fsl.noaa.gov> Received: by junco.fsl.noaa.gov (1.37.109.16/SMI-4.1 (1.37.109.16)) id AA107181032; Fri, 23 Jun 1995 06:37:12 -0600 To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com Cc: edward@edcom.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199506230747.AAA09946@rah.star-gate.com> (message from Amancio Hasty on Fri, 23 Jun 1995 00:47:32 -0700) Subject: Re: Java Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Amancio" == Amancio Hasty writes: Amancio> A bit more of low level work however Guile is available Amancio> in the ports/lang offers what it looks like the start of Amancio> a Java language implementation. What about threads? Gosling was in town speaking at our local UNIX user group meeting; he said that the most difficult part of the porting effort was providing a thread/lightweight process library. Porting Java has also exposed myriad bugs in existing thread implementations. After hearing that, I wasn't terribly inspired ... but hopeful, still. -- Sean Kelly NOAA Forecast Systems Lab, Boulder Colorado USA I think a good gift for the president would be a chocolate revolver. And since he's so busy, you'd probably have to run up to him and hand it to him. -- Jack Handey