One of the impediments to BBS'ing was the extraordinarily high cost of connection. Luckily I go early access to arpanet, uucp, and bitnet as a middle school and high school student in the 80s. AT&T phone rates were…
Let's not forget that the JVM still does not have reasonable generics & value types. The .NET CLR introduced this in 2005, bettering the JVM. Java was in a sleepy slow release mode back then. We've been waiting 18 years…
Nice to hear mention of RBK Dewar. He was well known in the programming languages field as a professor at NYU, but also was quite successful as an entrepreneur with his various compilers (I think his company was called…
One of the impediments to BBS'ing was the extraordinarily high cost of connection. Luckily I go early access to arpanet, uucp, and bitnet as a middle school and high school student in the 80s. AT&T phone rates were…
Let's not forget that the JVM still does not have reasonable generics & value types. The .NET CLR introduced this in 2005, bettering the JVM. Java was in a sleepy slow release mode back then. We've been waiting 18 years…
Nice to hear mention of RBK Dewar. He was well known in the programming languages field as a professor at NYU, but also was quite successful as an entrepreneur with his various compilers (I think his company was called…