Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!novia!news-out.readnews.com!transit3.readnews.com!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Lew Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.help Subject: Re: Failure of Java HTTP, some puzzles for those with not enough to do Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 07:20:40 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 20 Message-ID: <22410014.387.1322839240485.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@prfx15> References: <1hjed71dvvgkiut8mb1i17lo2gaf6ot76s@4ax.com> <4991613.402.1322750835352.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@prij11> Reply-To: comp.lang.java.help@googlegroups.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.239.45.130 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1322839365 30480 127.0.0.1 (2 Dec 2011 15:22:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 15:22:45 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=216.239.45.130; posting-account=CP-lKQoAAAAGtB5diOuGlDQk0jIwmH0T User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Google-Web-Client: true Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.help:1415 On Friday, December 2, 2011 1:58:28 AM UTC-8, Roedy Green wrote: > On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 06:47:15 -0800 (PST), Lew > wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : > > >They didn't have WORA in 1984. > > It was better than today. You did not have all those different > browsers interfering, you just had the app. Have you forgotten Pascal > P code, one of the early WORA attempts? Hasn't everyone? It didn't work, as those who do remember it will recall. Pascal had limited traction, being used mainly in academia and in one Borland product that had some success but was hardly a market killer. "Attempts" at WORA were made, sure, but they pretty much all lacked the "A" until recently. My point is that, attempts notwithstanding, there really was no WORA back then. -- Lew