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Article #445Re: JAVA IS THE TIMEX SINCLAIR EMULATOR OF THE 90's
From: Jacob C Kesinger
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 00:00
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 00:00
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dick@silicon.csci.csusb.edu (Dr. Richard Botting) writes: :A brief note: As far as I can tell, Every language that has become :a widely used language has gone through a stage when it was given away :free(in alphabetical order): I'm assuming you mean compilers instead of specs. : Basic: On Chips and from Dartmouth and even Bill G's first publication Do you mean Gates' Altair BASIC? Wasn't free at something like $400... (in 1974!) : FORTRAN, COBOL: Bundled with IBM Mainframes in 50's & 60's FORTRAN is free with GNU's g77 and f2c. I don't know if I would call your example ``free'', however. When you buy a car, do you think you get, say, the seats and windows for free? : LISP: several, including IBM Mainframe... XLISP,... GNU has GCL, and of course there's elisp... : HTML: Lynx/Mosaic A language? I'm not going to start this flamewar again. Besides, you're forgetting all the other free browsers. And if HTML goes in here, you'l have to put TeX in. : Pascal: from UCSD and (*memory failure*) Switzerland And GNU's GPC. :Mail me if you have an example of a computer language which has a large :user base and has never been given away free. Again, I don't think COBOL counts in your example above as free, so I'll postulate that. Maybe some of the database languages like Clipper? Seems to be pretty popular. ==Jake
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f4600,ce4e8a828b88e701 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4600,public X-Google-Thread: f5d71,ce4e8a828b88e701 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5d71,public X-Google-Thread: 10ed7b,ce4e8a828b88e701 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ed7b,public X-Google-Thread: fe74c,ce4e8a828b88e701 X-Google-Attributes: gidfe74c,public X-Google-Thread: 11488e,ce4e8a828b88e701 X-Google-Attributes: gid11488e,public X-Google-Thread: 1051ef,ce4e8a828b88e701 X-Google-Attributes: gid1051ef,public X-Google-Thread: 10da0c,ce4e8a828b88e701 X-Google-Attributes: gid10da0c,public X-Google-Thread: 114813,ce4e8a828b88e701 X-Google-Attributes: gid114813,public From: n9146070@rowlf.cc.wwu.edu (Jacob C Kesinger) Subject: Re: JAVA IS THE TIMEX SINCLAIR EMULATOR OF THE 90's Date: 1996/01/27 Message-ID: <n9146070.822781529@rowlf> X-Deja-AN: 136703900 distribution: world references: <4cfnbq$le4@news.express.co.nz> <1f7cc$1415.388@news.skyweb.net> <4djmsb$tmq@felix.junction.net> <kludgeDLCLKC.An5@netcom.com> <Pine.SOL.3.91.960119162433.10128A-100000@wjh.harvard.edu> <4e3el6$b3f@news.csus.edu> organization: Western Washington University newsgroups: comp.lang.java,comp.sys.sinclair,rec.humor,talk.bizarre,best.www,comp.infosystems.www.misc,alt.culture.www,comp.infosystems.www.authoring.misc,comp.infosystems.www.users,alt.www.hotjava,comp.infosystems.www.authoring.misc,comp.infosystems.www