[4079] in java-interest
Re: Java and Hotjava
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles Lowell)
Sat Dec 9 14:01:28 1995
Date: Sat, 9 Dec 1995 11:33:46 -0600 (CST)
From: Charles Lowell <cowboyd@hougen.che.utexas.edu>
To: tahmed <tahmed@on.bell.ca>
cc: Jonathan_Mark_Smith@CCMAIL.PRUSEC.COM, java-interest@java.sun.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPP.3.91.951208233733.646A-100000@tasha.sa.on.bell.ca>
a wise man once said:
"he who puts his product on the market first sets the standard"
And it is because java has already been so widely accepted that microsoft
knuckled under last thursday. It's better for SUN to have introduced a
fledgling java with problems, than to have its authority as a standard
challenged my some one as universally loathed as microsoft.
We have many things to be thankful for.
charlie
On Fri, 8 Dec 1995, tahmed wrote:
>
> > If Hotjava was made with Java
> >
> > Would it take once day to get the Hotjava
> > browser up to beta???
> >
> > Y is it taking so long?????
> I'm actually pretty disgusted with what's going on with Java.
> Java is awesome, but it's such a stupid mess at the moment. There's
> no bloody solid broswer to test java code with, the confusion between the
> alpha and beta version of the language. Everything should be stablized
> before releasing it. It's all so premature. Sun could port the javac
> binaries to all the UNIX platforms in a week. For crying out loud, Sun
> has muscle, and it's not as if the java compiler produces executeable code.
> They're playing games.
>
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