Subject: Re: Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Encyclopedia From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net> Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 15:01:20 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <3213183679374077@naggum.net> * Kenny Tilton | Did they say Java was write-once, run many? Did they say C++ was | powerful? For purposes of the discussion about the level of accuracy, detail and "political party"-like treatment that Lisp got in comparison with other languages get, it might be worth looking at the entries for Java and C++: Java - Modular object-oriented programming lgnauge developed by Sun Microsystems in 1995 specifically for the Internet. Java is based on the ida that the same software should run on many different kinds of computers, consumer gadgets, and other devices; its code is translated according to the needs of the machine on which it is running. The most visible examples of Java software are the interactive programs called "applets" that animate sites on the World Wide Web, where Java is a standard creative tool. Java provides an interface to HTML. C++ - Object-oriented version (see object-oriented programming) of the computer programming language C. Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup of Bell Laboratories in the early 1980s, it is a traditional C language with added object-oriented capabilities. C++, along with Java, has become popular for developing commercial software packages that incorporate multiple interrelated applications. /// -- Norway is now run by a priest from the fundamentalist Christian People's Party, the fifth largest party representing one eighth of the electorate. -- The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers. -- Richard Hamming