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Re: JDK Question

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arthur van Hoff)
Tue Sep 19 04:16:27 1995

Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 22:26:34 -0800 (PDT)
From: Arthur van Hoff <Arthur.Vanhoff@Eng.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: Arthur van Hoff <Arthur.Vanhoff@Eng.Sun.COM>
To: Philip Brown <phil@bolthole.com>
Cc: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM



Hi Phillip,

> > The mandatory networking classes are in java.net. We've got some
> > additional classess that we've put in sun.net.* to avoid name
> > clashes with other software vendors.
> 
> Phew. it sounded like java was going to be nastily crippled there.
> Glad to know things are moving onwards.
> I'm rather miffed that there wasn't a nice language reference distributed
> with the JDK, like withthe alpha releases.
> 
> But anyways, now it remains to be seen what the netscape boys make of it.

I can run all JDK applets in it, it works great. No, I can't give anyone
a copy.

> [ I still can't believe they made that THEOREM PROOF the winner
>  of the java contest. Yeeesshhh..... ]
> 
> PS: yes, I know it wasn't just netscape, but given that Mr Andreeson was
> one of the three judges... sigh...

I like it. I was one of the judges. It was hard to pick a winner we
all liked.

Have fun,

	Arthur van Hoff


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