Subject: Re: Lisp# in .NET?
From: rpw3@rigden.engr.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
Date: 8 Jun 2001 03:58:17 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <9fpigp$eup3m$1@fido.engr.sgi.com>
Kent M Pitman  <pitman@world.std.com> wrote:
+---------------
| It sounds like a criticism similar to the one made of Java--that it
| can never be fast enough to succeed.  But Microsoft has surely seen
| the problems with Java and I can't believe it's going to replicate
| all those problems...
+---------------

Believe it. Only now *Microsoft* will control the definition of the
VM (which is how they like it), not some indomitable 3rd-party like
Sun, or even worse (*shudder!*), an international standards committee.


-Rob

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