From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 29 18:33:40 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id SAA04732 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 29 Apr 1995 18:33:40 -0700 Received: from wdl1.wdl.loral.com (wdl1.wdl.loral.com [137.249.32.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id SAA04726 for ; Sat, 29 Apr 1995 18:33:37 -0700 Received: from miles.sso.loral.com by wdl1.wdl.loral.com (4.1/WDL-4.2) id AA22416; Sat, 29 Apr 95 18:32:00 PDT Received: by miles.sso.loral.com (4.1/SSO-SUN-2.04) id AA07517; Sat, 29 Apr 95 21:32:53 EDT Date: Sat, 29 Apr 1995 21:32:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Richard Toren X-Sender: rpt@miles To: Ollivier Robert Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , andreas@knobel.gun.de, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Hot Java.. In-Reply-To: <199504292052.WAA16223@blaise.ibp.fr> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk When I first overheard someone describing this capability of Java, I leaned back in my chair to reminisce about the bad old days and a beast called NeWS (Network Extensible Windowing System) by Sun. Thankfully I thought it had died out years ago when this upstart called X11R3 hit the streets. ==================================================== Rip Toren | The bad news is that C++ is not an object-oriented | rpt@miles.sso.loral.com | programming language. .... The good news is that | | C++ supports object-oriented programming. | | C++ Programming & Fundamental Concepts | | by Anderson & Heinze | ==================================================== On Sat, 29 Apr 1995, Ollivier Robert wrote: > > Java has an interpreted language built in, so you can download scripts > > that actually _interact_ with the user locally. I don't think you > > That should open a big can of worms too (aka security holes)... > > -- > Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@FreeBSD.ORG > FreeBSD keltia 2.0.950416-SNAP #17: Sun Apr 16 17:12:07 MET DST 1995 >