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The Linux folks talk about avoiding the mistakes of UNIX fragmentation.
Perhaps those who remember history are doomed to convince themselves that *
they * WON'T sail off the edge of the world or get eaten by dragons... And
some of them are never heard from again.

Greg Stigers
http://www.cgiusa.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Gavin Scott [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 2:13 PM
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Subject: Cross platform development (Was: Open Systems (was IBM S/390
update reported)

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Wirt wrote:
> It seems that even those who remember history are doomed to repeat it.
<snip>

Perhaps, but with the passage of time the designers of Java had the
advantage
of being able to learn from the failures of past attempts at portability.
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