David VanHorn wrote:

>At 11:54 AM 8/4/2004, D. Jay Newman wrote:
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>>>I remember when Java was going to replace assembly, on all platforms.
>>>Of course I remember when we were all going to have flying cars too. :)
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>>I think the flying cars were scheduled for the 80's.  :)
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>>Actually the uVM PICs are interesting. The compiler is efficient and
>>I haven't had too many problems even when I'm beta testing the things.
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>>The creator (James Caska) did a presentation at the Masters this year on
>>uVM.
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>No doubt, I was just reminiscing a bit.
>There have been a number of "going to take over the world" technologies, that didn't make it, but the Java one I thought was particularly ambitious.  The idea that any one language could be the best possible candidate, on all platforms, for all applications, is just laughable.
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See a person as a "language"...
.. I know a lot of people (that I can tell what I want) and who can
program "this what I want thing" in either an 8-bit micro or in a 64-bit
mainframe ;-)
Maybe the fact that $$$ are involved (Sun has copyright on Java ?),
makes all these "going to take over the world" technologies per
definition unsuccesfill  (although Bill accomplished it almost).

Stef Mientki

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