The Future of Java?

Todd AvErth writes "Judge Motz recently ordered Microsoft to distribute Sun's JVM with every Windows product. Salon decided to pipe up about it with an editorial musing about whether or not it's too late. Most of it isn't all that interesting, but some of the comments from Ximian developer, Miguel de Icaza point to the advantage of being able to compile from multiple languages. Anyone know of any projects to compile JVM bytecode from other languages?" Update: 01/23 16:00 GMT by M : Comments were disallowed when this story was originally posted; fixed now. My mistake (although KDE3's stupid mouseover-activates-form-elements user interface, now finally fixed in the latest versions, has to take some blame too).

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Re:Java hype

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The sad thing is, I thought the real CS academics would be out pushing LISP or LISP like stuff rather than Java. Then again maybe they've already written the perfect Lisp program already and it's moved to the next plane of existence and created its own universe.

Give up promoting LISP. It is just too powerful for the masses. LISP is like jacking off: It feels great, but you can't do it in public :-)