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From: Florian Weimer <Florian.Weimer@RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE>
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Subject: Re: 'Cyclone', a safer C--reinventing the wheel
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"Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org> writes:

> In CS we seem to often see people rediscovering something and declaring it a
> major breakthrough. Maybe they add a few new twists, but its still
> fundamentally the same as something else. Witness Java thinking it invented
> a virtual machine. How old is p-code?

Gosling himself probably used p-code in Gosling Emacs ...