Re: YALCFO (Yet Another Lisp Criticism From an Outsider)

From: Keith Irwin (keith.irwin_at_hp.com)
Date: 12/03/04 

Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 17:00:24 -0800

On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 19:43 -0500, Jon Boone wrote:
> Hartmann Schaffer <hs@hartmann.schaffernet> writes:
>
> > David Steuber wrote:
> >> Java seems to still be going strong and probably won't die anytime
> >> soon. Although, I was rather surprised to discover that Open Office
> >> org is written primarily in C++ which means that Star Office...
> >
> > I think staroffice was started before java was available. afair, it
> > was available already in the early 1990s
> >
> > hs
>
> The important thing to keep in mind is that when Sun purchased
> StarOffice, it was a Java application so that it could "run
> anywhere".

I seem to remember running star office on OS/2 before java was invented.
It also ran on windows at the time. Open Office, or so I thought, was
simply the star office code base. Star Office, _now_ is just a packaged
version of Open Office with a few add ons.

Where did you get the idea it was written in Java?

K

>
> Of course, they then proceeded to scrap StarOffice, launched
> OpenOffice as a fresh start and eschewed Java as the implementation
> language - because they want to hurt Microsoft more than they want
> to push Java.
>
> --jon

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