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Subject: Re: HTML,SGML,HotJava,HTTP - Where do each fit in the big picture?
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I enjoy precis of hot topics like this.

Java's capabilities and proposed uses sound interesting.
Unfortunately, its syntax does not appeal to me the way Lisp's does.

Quoth jsbell@acs.ucalgary.ca (Joshua Sean Bell):
> C. With a Java-savy browser (HotJava or Netscape 2.0 or ...) you can
> download Java programs and run them on your own computer. These programs

Is anybody interested in summarizing the status of any Lisp dialect
for passing bits of programs around, having mobile web agents do work
for you, and doing the other things that Java is poised to do?  I know
some folks at MIT were working on this or scouting its borders with
CL-HTTP and the Scheme Underground.  Will anything achieve the
momentum of Java?

I'd love to see it!

I don't mean prototypes, but something widespread and burgeoning like
J=a;v+a and P!e$r&l, with active code fragment sites, active use in
well-known web pages, etc.  Perhaps there are plenty of interpreters
that COULD achieve this status, but which ones, if any, do you think
WILL achieve it in reality?

Would a Scheme written in Java be inefficient?  Will we see
web-oriented language heterogeneity?

For the References:-challenged:
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> Subject: Re: HTML,SGML,HotJava,HTTP - Where do each fit in the big picture?

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