From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Aug 9 19:12:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA27253 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 9 Aug 1997 19:12:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hwcn.org (main.hwcn.org [199.212.94.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA27248 for ; Sat, 9 Aug 1997 19:12:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (ac199@james.hwcn.org [199.212.94.66]) by hwcn.org (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id WAA08037; Sat, 9 Aug 1997 22:13:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (ac199@localhost) by james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id WAA11968; Sat, 9 Aug 1997 22:13:32 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca: ac199 owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 9 Aug 1997 22:13:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek X-Sender: ac199@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca Reply-To: hoek@hwcn.org To: Peter Korsten cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: generic compiling programming language? In-Reply-To: <19970810022419.58644@grendel.IAEhv.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 10 Aug 1997, Peter Korsten wrote: > But, as soon as this standard leaves things to be desired, Sun better > put those in a standard, or else the same thing will happen to Java > as has happened to about any other language: divergation. Which is sometimes better than a bloated standard... -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk