Cortlandt Wilson wrote:
>
> By "generality" I was thinking in part of the very wide support of
> Java applets by web browsers.   A single language, Java, can be used
> to program both the web client and the server.
>
> Also, class or function libraries for various  interfaces and
> foundational archetectures seem to be very important for all the
> languages.    Java seems to hold it's own with the rest.
>
>

For example, I'd really like to have QCTerm, with all the extra
functionality Wirt is doing, implemented as a Java applet that was
carefully respectful of the requirement of wide verson compatibility.
That would really be using the "new" to implement the "old" to do
the "new" that the "new" doesn't do, but we really need (to mix
threads a bit).:-)

Richard
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