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From: Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com>
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In-Reply-To: <199507170651.XAA00518@rah.star-gate.com> from "Amancio Hasty Jr." at Jul 16, 95 11:51:51 pm
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Amancio Hasty:
> >>> Peter da Silva said:
>  > What solutions does it provide that aren't already addressed by existing
>  > languages? What's its killer app?

> Better yet do we have any developers which can write killer apps :)

> You are right we have plenty of languages so where are the apps ?

You have it backwards. It's the apps drive languages. Like Mosaic and HotJava
and Tk and Hypercard and FreeBSD and Emacs. Emacs Lisp isn't popular because
it's lisp, it's popular because it's embedded in Emacs.

FreeBSD is our killer app. And its native languages are C and sh and awk.