Re: Netscape the Big Win

[tcmay@sensemedia.net (Timothy C. May)]

At 11:21 PM 7/20/95, Douglas Barnes wrote:

>I don't get what you mean when you say, "Java isn't ready for the
>home market." True, I don't think that programming languages of
>any sort are part of the "home market", but I think that Java will
>enable people like cypherpunks to write extremely portable applications
>_once_ that will be embeddable on web pages viewed by browsers like
>Netscape. I can't think of anything that is going to come closer to
>your definition of "winning" the home market. Certainly the home

I agree. This is what I meant by saying programmers would use it, to put
these capabilities into browsers that home users then get.

Maybe this is just semantic quibbling: all I meant is that Java (or
Fortran, or Perl, or whatever) will not be things the home user is ready
for.

--Tim May


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