Date: Sat, 15 Jul 1995 19:54:58 -0500 (CDT) From: Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com> To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty Jr.) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HotJava Message-ID: <199507160054.TAA25087@bonkers.taronga.com> In-Reply-To: <199507151921.MAA16080@rah.star-gate.com> from "Amancio Hasty Jr." at Jul 15, 95 12:21:07 pm
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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.
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