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for icon-group-addresses; Mon, 22 May 2000 12:34:08 -0700 (MST)
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From: gep2@terabites.com
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 12:37:45 -0500
Subject: Re: Is Anyone Working On A Unicode Version Of Icon?
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>>At the time, I was just copying the idea of a bytecode interpreter from
>the Pascal p-system. Little did I realize that Sun had yet to "invent"
>bytecode!
> This prompts me to ask a question that has been bothering me for some time,
and to which I would appreciate a reply that is not overly technical. I used
Apple Pascal what seems like eons ago. It was a really nice system, invented
by Ken Bowles, if I remember correctly. My question is, why is there so much
fuss about Java working across different platforms? Was not the p-system a
"virtual machine" which could function in just that way?
Yes of course, and in fact that's part of why those of us who have been in the
business for so long have quite a "big deal, ho-hum" attitude about Java.
Especially given Sun's repugnant attempt to blatantly use it as a blunt tool to
bludgeon their biggest software competitor.
Besides the fact that, given (legitimate) security concerns, I *really* do not
want Webmasters to be able to run their own executable code on my machine just
because I stop in to browse their Web site.
Gordon Peterson
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