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From: charles.herrick@amd.com (Charles Herrick)
Subject: Re: Object Technology: What will JAVA do that Smalltalk won't do?
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In article <44t0ro$epk@news.utdallas.edu>,
   mharriso@utdallas.edu (Mark A Harrison) wrote:
>Jeff Sutherland (jsutherland@vmark.com) wrote:
>: ***What can JAVA do that a distributed Smalltalk cant do?***
>:   
>: Nothing.  The question is whether Sun Microsystems can turn 
>: JAVA into the Visual Basic of the Internet through clever 
>: marketing. There are many reasons why Smalltalk would be 
>: better, starting with the fact that it is a fully functional, 
>: non-proprietary language.
>
>Be careful, you are starting to sound like the lisp maniacs...

He sounds just like someone involved in a language competition,
which has been a common event in our industry ever since the second CPU was 
designed.

The LISP maniacs were (supposedly) guilty of believing that
LISP was akin to the second coming. 

On the other hand, 
comparisons of languages designed to cut through marketing
hype is a perfectly valid endeavor, especially given the propensity
in our industry for everyone, including the engineers and not
just the marketing department, to hype their agenda... 

can you say "SUN?"


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