[44563] in Cypherpunks
Re: Suggestion for CP browser
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Bailey)
Sun Dec 3 12:03:05 1995
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 95 11:56:37 EST
From: dan@milliways.org (Dan Bailey)
Reply-To: dan@milliways.org (Dan Bailey)
To: fc@all.net
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
On Sun, 3 Dec 1995 07:05:06 -0500 (EST) you wrote:
>I think a CP browser is just the ticket to change the way the world works.
>How about this:
[snip]
> - Funds produced go to support worthy causes, support a permanent
> home for CP, and support anti GAK efforts (lobying, etc.)
A while back it was mentioned here that Eric Hughes set up Cypherpunk
Labs, Inc, and it was supposed to provide scholarships to
crypto-minded students and offer computational resources for those
late-night factoring sessions. Did anything ever happen with that? I
could use a scholarship about now...;)
>
>I think the CP browser should include an embedded language (not Java -
>maybe a version of LISP) that does a far better job than Java of assuring
>limitations on what programs can do. It should also support faking the
I think Java is going to become a standard to run with. It's pretty
close to C, so it isn't hard to pick up and it performs acceptibly.
While I don't mind coding in LISP or Scheme, I think most programmers
in the trenches would rather fight than recurse.
Dan
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