From owner-freebsd-java Wed Mar 3 16:30:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from poboxer.pobox.com (unknown [208.149.16.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 522DF154E9 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 16:28:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alk@poboxer.pobox.com) Received: (from alk@localhost) by poboxer.pobox.com (8.9.2/8.9.1) id SAA11598; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 18:27:22 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from alk) From: Tony Kimball MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 18:27:21 -0600 (CST) X-Face: \h9Jg:Cuivl4S*UP-)gO.6O=T]]@ncM*tn4zG);)lk#4|lqEx=*talx?.Gk,dMQU2)ptPC17cpBzm(l'M|H8BUF1&]dDCxZ.c~Wy6-j,^V1E(NtX$FpkkdnJixsJHE95JlhO 5\M3jh'YiO7KPCn0~W`Ro44_TB@&JuuqRqgPL'0/{):7rU-%.*@/>q?1&Ed Reply-To: alk@pobox.com To: nate@mt.sri.com Cc: chuckr@mat.net, bsletten@nova.org, freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AOUT/ELF References: <199903032136.OAA14551@mt.sri.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14045.53729.309237.446025@avalon.east> Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Quoth Nate Williams on Wed, 3 March: : My only fear is that jikes will become less useful as a 'java' : compiler. Because it is open-source, there have already been a number : of requests to 'extend' Java language with new (useful) features. : : Unfortunately, as we've seen with gcc, the resulting 'language' is no : longer 'C', and is instead 'Gnu-C'. : : Fortunately, the IBM guys have been good about rejecting such changes, : but I think it's only a matter of time before it diverges into a new : language. Pizza is a different language, Generic Java is a different language. These are Good Things. Hopefully someone with more time than me will add type complex and multi-dimensional arrays so that with a good compiler back-end Java will be fast like f77. Just think -- all that fortran code can go the way of cobol at last! And multiple inheritance, so as to allow mixin-style: Whee, I'd be so happy! And while I'm completely off-topic, did you know that Microsoft recently was awarded a patent for butt straps? I kid you not! http://www.patents.ibm.com/details?pn=US05819372__&language=en Okay, I'll go take my medicine now. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message