- From: Steve Crocker <crocker@cybercash.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 10:57:24 -0400
- To: miked@eolas.com (Mike Doyle)
- Cc: burchard@cs.princeton.edu, www-talk@w3.org
The earliest RFCs describe the idea of downloading programs to facilitate interaction over the network. Two attempts to define an easy to implement interpretable language were published, one called Decode-Encode Language (DEL) by Jeff Rulifson, and one called Network Interchange Language (NIL) by Michel Elie. In my opinion, this work foreshadowed JAVA, et al., and it only now, with the appearance of JAVA, that the ideas described and anticipated in those first days of planning for the Arpanet have finally been realized. There are, of course, a myriad of technical details involved in the design of these various languages, and there may or may not be some novel ideas in those details. However, in my opinion, the concept of downloading a program in the middle of an interaction to facilitate the interaction or integrate the operation of the remote and local machines was clearly understood and documented in 1969. Steve -------------------- Steve Crocker Main: +1 703 620 4200 CyberCash, Inc., Suite 430 Desk: +1 703 716 5214 2100 Reston Parkway Fax: +1 703 620 4215 Reston, VA 22091 crocker@cybercash.com
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