Date: Fri, 6 Oct 1995 08:47:42 -0700 From: patl@asimov.volant.org To: dfk@wildcat.cs.dartmouth.edu, scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Java? Message-ID: <9510061547.AA15229@asimov.volant.org>
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|> > Date: Thu, 5 Oct 1995 16:24:19 +1000 (EST) |> > From: Anthony Hill <ahill@netspace.net.au> |> > |> > On Wed, 4 Oct 1995, David Kotz wrote: |> > |> > > Anyone know if Java (interpreter and/or compiler component) will be |> > > available for FreeBSD? |> > |> > Well the new UNIX version of netscape (due in a few days) is supposed |> > to support Java, dont know about authoring tools though. |> > |> >I don't want a browser, I don't want HotJava, I want to run Java |> >programs. |> > |> >dave |> |> But that's what the browser does, right? (runs Java programs). At least, |> HotJava did the last time I played with it. The HotJava package included a |> compiler (I think) but I guess you won't get that with Netscape. No, it runs Java applets. Applets are not complete programs, and run in a severely security-restricted environment. HotJava itself is a Java program. Some of us want to take advantage of the binary portability and clean language design of Java to write other programs. (Personally, I like to describe Java as "what C++ should have been.") -Pat
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