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Re: JavaBASIC, JavaPascal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jose A Pena)
Fri Nov 3 20:52:28 1995
Date: 03 Nov 1995 14:54:54 -0800
From: "Jose A Pena" <Jose.A.Pena@jpl.nasa.gov>
To: "david.gardiner@unisa.edu.au" <david.gardiner@unisa.edu.au> (Return requested),
"java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM" <java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM> (Return requested)
Well,
You may be a little late. Microsoft is working on a Visual Basic -like language
to implement in their BlackBird Environment, and some of their execs promise to
blow Java away. The good news is that they will implement a OLE Java plug-in so
BlackBird can use Java.
I have no idea what this language is going to look like or how is blackbird
going to affect the future of Java, all I know is that this kind of ideas are
setting the stage for the battle of the decade : Microsoft vs. Netscape
Time will tell...
Excelsior!!!
Armando.-
DID YOU KNOW THAT : Programmers don't die. They just GOSUB without RETURN.
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Subject: JavaBASIC, JavaPascal
From: david.gardiner@unisa.edu.au at Internet
Date: 11/2/95 9:42 PM
It occurred to me the other day. Why can't we develop compilers
that use the Java object format, but use different source languages?
A C++ based language is quite powerful, but there would be benefits
in providing a 'BASIC' related language. cf. the popularity of Visual
Basic programming.
Would there be any huge hurdles in providing this capability.
My initial thoughts would be all you would need is a language spec
that was object-oriented (could behave in a similar way to Java/C++),
and a compiler that turned this source into the compiled java classes.
-dave
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