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Re: Java vs Telescript, Python
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Lorton)
Thu Jun 22 12:40:16 1995
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 1995 09:01:05 -0700
From: Michael Lorton <mlorton@eshop.com>
To: george@dvcorp.com
Cc: majordom@java.sun.com, java-interest@java.sun.com
In-Reply-To: George Reynolds's message of Thu, 22 Jun 1995 09:40:16 -0400 <199506221340.JAA10892@dvcorp.com>
> >> >- - Telescript is very Network oriented and seems to offer much more than Java
> >> > in terms of code migration, and distributed programming. Moreover it
> >> > provides frameworks for mail programming, application publishing ...
> >> > It is presented as THE language for Electronic Market.
> >>
> >> The problem with Telescript is information. Apart from the 3 white papers
> >> (send email to devadd@genmagic.com) that are useful from a scenario/concept
> >> point of view you can't get any other information from General Magic about
> >> TeleScript unless you are one of their big developers. There is no other
> >> info (I asked!).
> >>
>
> Cant say I know anything about Telescript but I did check out
> http://www.genmagic.com and found a ton of info including a
> Magic Cap developers guide.
You're right, you don't know anything about Telescript :-). A Magic
Cap device does not run Telescript, at least not the whole language.
It can generate Telescript agents and (as I understand it) can run
them only to a very limited degree. The web page page made little
mention of Telescript.
In addition, Telescript is slooooww. I mean really slow. Mind-boggling
slow. TRS-80 slow. The word to remember is "slow".
And security? General Magic themselves did a demo wherein an agent
from one device went to another device and came back the the Rolodex-
entry for the other device's owner's dentist. I asked if it could
have instead gotten the guy's psychiatrist. Nobody even got it.
M.
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