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>Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 15:37:56 +0200
>To: slug@ai.sri.com
>From: Rainer Joswig <joswig@lavielle.com>
>Subject: Re: Keyboard weirdness. Anyone familiar with this behavior?
>
>At 15:59 Uhr -0400 03.06.1999, Kent M Pitman wrote:
>
>Kent? Is it really you? ;-)
>
>>FWIW, I think the right thing at this point would be Open Genera on
>>Java.
>
>I don't think so.

  What would be gained from writing the emulator in Java? Portability?
Not from what I've heard from some Java programmers. To me, the C
emulator would be portable enough.

>>  It might be slower than a native emulator,
>
>How much slower?
>
>> but it would have a
>>great deal more survivability... in addition to having continual
>>access to Java goodies
>
>Most (for me) interesting goodies are not written in Java.
>Almost nothing of the stuff I have in daily use is written in Java
>or runs under JVM.

  Nothing I want is written in Java. And just because the emulator was
written in Java doesn't necessarily mean you could access arbitrary
Java from Lisp. You'd have to implement some sort of FFI or a JVM in
Lisp. If you're doing that, then what the emulator is written in
probably doesn't matter a whole lot.

>The only thing to think about would be "redoing" Genera
>in Java and getting rid of Lisp. Good luck.

  Why not use CL instead of Java, if you were going to try and
recreate Genera?

  Mike McDonald
  mikemac@mikemac.com