Re: Hot Java is here! And it *rocks*

On Wed, 29 Mar 1995, Sarr Blumson wrote:

> Having said that, I'm not clear on the point of binaries.  They are 
> more efficient, but often marginally so.  In reality they are just a 
> different predefined language, but one that is defined by the hardware 
> so that if I own a machine that the server provider didn't have a copy 
> of I'm out of luck.  With Safe-TCL or Python (and maybe even HotJava, 
> although that depends on Sun to some extent) I have a solution, at 
> least in principle.

Something that might be interesting to take a look at is Pesto:
	http://www.faslab.com/fresco/Futurism.html#Python
from which I quote:

"
Python 

Pesto is cooking! Pesto is a Python interface to the CORBA dynamic
invocation interface, and thus Fresco. A Pesto prototype is running and is
currently being packaged up for inclusion in the snapshot. 
"

A browser based on this might be something quite impressive.

--Paul

Paul Everitt             V 703.371.6909  Email Paul.Everitt@cminds.com
Connecting Minds, Inc.   F 703.371.1201  WWW   http://www.cminds.com/ 

Received on Friday, 31 March 1995 10:37:03 UTC