From: "Bruce Ellis" <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Java
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:03:49 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <775b8d190801170103o2b0a4917qfdc7108716976055@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <32df552fad60582de8ec364d60b71b23@terzarima.net>
yes. tho' last i saw was a ``Learn To Write A Java Book in 7 Days".
i think it was released just before ``Dummies for Dummies".
Charles and VN have better taste.
brucee
On Jan 17, 2008 7:29 PM, Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net> wrote:
> > i did the java class loader for inferno. it was a pointless
> > exercise, and i told them. but then i quit. somehow i was
>
> i'd better point out that Brucee's `them' was Lucent's Inferno Business Unit,
> not Vita Nuova. they wasted a fair amount of time and money on it.
> we've got the results, including brucee's contributions, but to run any java
> on it (ignoring changes in JVM meanwhile) requires lots of surrounding expensive
> sun proprietary software, which is why it was never included in a distribution.
> since some of the more enthusiastic java puffers have themselves moved on,
> writing books such as ``Beyond Java'', probably there's no point in it now.
> i think it's the worst language i've ever used (and i've used RPG and FORTRAN II).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-17 9:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-16 23:54 Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-17 0:19 ` Federico G. Benavento
2008-01-17 1:04 ` Yaroslav
2008-01-17 1:58 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-17 2:00 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-17 2:05 ` Iruata Souza
2008-01-17 3:48 ` Federico G. Benavento
2008-01-17 4:19 ` Bruce Ellis
2008-01-17 8:29 ` Charles Forsyth
2008-01-17 9:03 ` Bruce Ellis [this message]
2008-01-17 8:34 ` Charles Forsyth
2008-01-17 8:32 ` Robert William Fuller
2008-01-17 17:48 ` Latchesar Ionkov
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-02-07 20:21 [9fans] java bituman
2006-02-07 20:36 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-02-07 20:42 ` uriel
2006-02-07 20:48 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-02-07 20:56 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2004-03-02 0:59 [9fans] Java matt
2004-03-02 13:46 ` Michael Jeffrey
2003-04-16 12:55 [9fans] java peter a. cejchan
2003-04-11 1:16 okamoto
2003-04-11 8:12 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2003-04-11 9:04 ` Bruce Ellis
2003-04-11 9:08 ` will551
2003-04-10 5:19 peter a. cejchan
2003-04-10 14:58 ` ron minnich
2003-04-10 15:24 ` David Butler
2003-04-11 5:44 ` C H Forsyth
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