Re: Java a history lesson

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From: Butthead
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 00:00

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Phil Bradley wrote:
 > requirements appear; the COBOL language did not evolve to support the
 > new requirements; hence vendor specific enhancements to 'standard'
COBOL
 > made it less and less portable.  COBOL's problem was that it was
mired
 > in an ANSI standards committee.  The lesson is clear; Sun is right,
and
 > handing Java over to a standards committee would be rank stupidity.

But COBOL is very widespread nonetheless.

I'm not too wild about ANSI myself.  But should we tar all standards
bodies with the same brush?

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From: Butthead <huhhuh@fbc.org>
Subject: Re: Java a history lesson
Date: 1997/09/30
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