Rich Kulawiec writes:
> Bob Munck writes:
> > To give just two counterexamples, Tim Berners-Lee did all of his
> > development work on NeXTStep and Java was intended to supplant or
> > replace Unix as well as Windows and AppleOS.
>
> Java: I didn't address the issue of *why* it was developed. I only
> wrote about *where* it was developed, and that was on Unix.
Glad you brought this up; I meant to comment on it originally.
Java was *not* developed to supplant UNIX (it couldn't; it's a
language, not an OS). It was originally developed (during the "Oak"
stage of its life) as a language to use in consumer electronics.
It was after they'd significantly developed the language that the
project developers started to realize how applicable it was to
Internet applications.
Steven J. Owens
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