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- Subject: Re: Java: What's the Big Deal?
- Message-ID: <seitz-1903961018170001@seitz.scp.com>
- From: seitz@medscape.com (Bill Seitz)
- Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 10:18:17 -0500
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- <JSA.96Mar13153724@organon.com> <milodDo9vKq.Ls8@netcom.com>
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- In article <milodDo9vKq.Ls8@netcom.com>, milod@netcom.com (John DiCamillo)
- wrote:
- >I said it was the 2nd most notable thing about Java because the
- >people who use Java applets probably could not care less how they
- >work. These people are expected to form a market for Java applets,
- >and by extension Java programmers. Just having a VM isn't enough.
- >
- >For example, the Smalltalk VM probably could have been modified
- >to allow its use in Web applets, and then Smalltalk might have
- >exploded instead of Java. (Java might have caught on anyways,
- >because of its backing by Sun, and because of its C-like syntax.)
-
-
- I think the JVM is the _most_ notable thing. People may not care how
- applets work, but they care that they _do_ work, and a ubiquitous VM seems
- the way to make that happen.
-
- Yes, the SmallTalk VM probably _could_ have filled that role, but the ST
- vendors like those runtime fees, so now they're screwed. (Unless they
- change their mind, and make a free STVM just at a moment when Java is
-