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Re: "perform:" and Java
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles L. Perkins)
Fri Aug 25 03:34:59 1995
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 95 23:32:50 -0400
From: "Charles L. Perkins" <clp@home.HarvardSq.com>
To: Doug Lea <dl@altair.cs.oswego.edu>
Cc: mikef@xnet.com, java-interest@java.sun.com
Thanks for the thoughts, but in my mind solving the following:
> * As described so far, this is hopelessly heavy (time/space consuming)
> * As described so far, this is hopelessly awkward to use.
would be the whole point of some scheme that was either (a) provided by
the language directly, or (b) provided by a (possibly language-assisted)
library package of classes.
I was hoping for (a) or (b) above, since the compiler (and its obvious
derivatives) already exist.
I suspect that leaving this out was a design *choice* (simplicity, style,
a desire for more static semantics, etc.) and was hoping to get a Javaite
at Sun to give us all a little bit of software engineering history...
Charles
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