[991] in java-interest
Re: Operator Overloading
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tako Schotanus)
Wed Aug 16 08:32:42 1995
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 95 10:59:12 +0200
To: Bill Burcham <billb@ripley.sunquest.com>, java-interest@java.sun.com
From: Tako Schotanus <Tako.Schotanus@bouw.tno.nl>
At 17:17 15-08-95 MST, Bill Burcham wrote:
>I believe that many of us see huge possibilities for Java to become
>much more than a toy. I think that we are frustrated that the people
>in "control" of the language either fail to share that view, or do not
>have the resources to make it happen fast enough to suit us. I hope
>that Netscape Communications Corp. takes a little chunk of that IPO
>money and sets the standard for executable content. They could use
>the current Java spec as a starting point an do something truly
>significant.
Please, let's not! I'm sure they're quite busy at Sun and think we
should wait at least until there's a very stable beta with a more or
less settled API before we start thinking about JavaScape or whatever.
I don't want to have to decide if I use Java from A because it has
feature X or from B because it has feature Y.
- Tako
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