Neill Newman neill@entora.co.uk writes:

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What's more, Alugites, being lovers of freedom could well suffer terrible repercussions should they one day discover "(c) Sun Microsystems" stamped all over their little worlds....

true, but Sun hath give Java to the ISO commitee (afaik) so it may well become a standard in a few years ;).. [...]

I thought that was all called off, then Sun tried to pass it to ECMA, then they took it back to themselves and are going to do Whatever They Damn Well Please.

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And finally, C++ makes it much easier to code overflowable buffers into

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all the more reason to go for a well thought out, sandboxed, bufferover run proof, stacksmashing proof, secure alternative ;)..

Why are you bringing the Lisp family of languages into this? ;-)