Subject: Re: Java should not excite anyone who knows Lisp
From: Erik Naggum <clerik@naggum.no>
Date: 1997/09/06
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3082529494092259@naggum.no>


* Eric Taylor
| I am immensely comforted by the fact that I can write "JAVA" code
| and it will run on virtually any platform with no modification or
| recompilation.

this is true only in the dreams of marketing people.

| Can you say that about Common Lisp or C/C++ ?

for Common Lisp, the answer is actually "yes", and it has been for years.

#\Erik
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