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In article <4e3el6$b3f@news.csus.edu> dick@silicon.csci.csusb.edu (Dr. Richard Botting) writes:
>From: dick@silicon.csci.csusb.edu (Dr. Richard Botting)
>Subject: Re: JAVA IS THE TIMEX SINCLAIR EMULATOR OF THE 90's
>Date: 23 Jan 1996 19:58:30 GMT

>Simon (simon@wjh.harvard.edu) wrote:
>: On Wed, 17 Jan 1996, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>: > It's more like the UCSD P-System of the nineties, and the virtualization
>: > is quite strikingly similar.
>: > --scott

>: anychance you could explain what a ucsd p-system is?  perhaps the urinary 
>: tract of some small mammal?

>Ho ho....

>P=Pascal (the language....)
>UC=University of California
>SD=San Diego

>It was a compiler/interpreter for Pascal that ran on a cheap and popular
>micro-computer in days before PC,...
>PC=IBM Personal Computers.

>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):
>        Basic: On Chips and from Dartmouth and even Bill G's first publication
>        C: From AT&T, Berzerkely, Gnu/FreeSoft
>        C++: Gnu/Freesoft...
>        FORTRAN, COBOL: Bundled with IBM Mainframes in 50's & 60's
>        LISP: several, including IBM Mainframe... XLISP,...
>        HTML: Lynx/Mosaic
>        Pascal: from UCSD and (*memory failure*) Switzerland
>However, this is not a recipe for success... consider Prolog or SML for
>example.

>Mail me if you have an example of a computer language which has a large
>user base and has never been given away free.

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Let's not forget two other languages that were going to take over the world :)
60's  PL/1 - The best of FORTRAN & COBOL
70's  Ada - A bigger & better PL/1 brought to you by the Dept of Defense.
Doug McKinley