From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me
X-Spam-Level: 
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID
	autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 109fba,953e1a6689d791f6
X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public
X-Google-Thread: fac41,953e1a6689d791f6
X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public
X-Google-Thread: 10a640,953e1a6689d791f6
X-Google-Attributes: gid10a640,public
X-Google-Thread: f79bb,953e1a6689d791f6
X-Google-Attributes: gidf79bb,public
X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,953e1a6689d791f6
X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public
X-Google-Thread: 103376,953e1a6689d791f6
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
X-Google-Thread: 114809,953e1a6689d791f6
X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public
X-Google-Thread: fdb77,953e1a6689d791f6
X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public
From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Eiffel and Java
Date: 1996/10/28
Message-ID: <dewar.846540305@merv>#1/1
X-Deja-AN: 192738680
references: <550sm2$sn1@buggy.news.easynet.net>
 <xelph-2710962104500001@pax-ca26-28.ix.netcom.com>
organization: New York University
newsgroups: 
 comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.sather,comp.object,comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.clos,fr.comp.objet
Date: 1996-10-28T00:00:00+00:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>


iXelph said

"Java is just the beginning of a new era, but it's certainly not the
language who will necessarily win in the end. For now, it's the only one
to do what it does, thus it's the "current" winner..."

True in some respects, but in other respects, the idea of this kind of
portability is very old, and certainly the pcode version of Pascal ran
on many more different kinds of machines than so far support Java.