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From: ddyer@netcom.com (Dave Dyer)
Subject: Re: Will Java VM kill Lisp?  How to fight it.
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Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 18:23:52 GMT
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>Recently I heard that Sun has asked ANSI (or was it ISO?) to
>standardize Java.  This is our chance.  Representatives of the Lisp
>community could join the standardization effort, and lobby hard
>for Lisp-friendly features (or at least Lisp-neutral features) to
>be added to the JVM instruction set.
>
This is lunacy.  ISO is not a political body that you
can beg or bribe into adding pie-in-the-sky features to
a proposed standard.

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