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From: Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com>
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Subject: Re: HotJava
To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty Jr.)
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 1995 19:54:58 -0500 (CDT)
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> Speed ?

Is it that fast? With all the Emacs Lisp bags on the side?

> If we look at it from a scheme point of view then Guile does not offer
> much more. I was thinking along the lines of using the facilities in
> Guile as you have well pointed out we have scheme interpreters for 
> FreeBSD for quite sometime yet I don't hear a lot of people using
> them . 

People don't use languages because they're cool. They use them because they
solve a problem, like extending shell hacks where the shell/awk stuff gives
up (perl, tcl), or providing a GUI (tk, visual basic), or better web browsing
(java). If it wasn't for HotJava nobody would care about Java.