From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 14 05:21:53 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id FAA06634 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 14 Jul 1995 05:21:53 -0700 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.222.226]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id FAA06628 ; Fri, 14 Jul 1995 05:21:50 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id FAA03124; Fri, 14 Jul 1995 05:21:19 -0700 Message-Id: <199507141221.FAA03124@time.cdrom.com> To: "Amancio Hasty Jr." cc: Timothy Moore , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HotJava In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 14 Jul 1995 01:08:29 PDT." <199507140808.BAA00422@rah.star-gate.com> Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 05:21:19 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > If folks like to work on this sort of languages please take a look at > guile-ii avaiable in the ports/lang directory in freebsd.cdrom.com. Hmmm. While I admire Amancio's enthusiasm, I've looked at guile-ii and can only really say "huh." Sure, it's a nice little language. But java is a nice little language AND it has Sun backing it, which is really important when you start looking for all the nice framework and applications base stuff. There's nothing that says guile might not be *technically* capable of that, but it needs far more than just technical chops to beat java. Jordan > > All in all and I am not a lawyer from a copyright standpoint, I would > say Java and guile are about the same. Different restrictions of course > but the end result is that in one Sun owns the code and in the other > the sources for guile most be made available. Take your pick.... > > One nice thing about guile is that it works and is available today . > Sure that it needs more work but I bet that in the same amount time > that anyone in here spends on *porting* Java you will be further along with > guile. > > Enjoy, > Amancio > >