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Re: Failure of Java HTTP, some puzzles for those with not enough to do

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Roedy Green wrote:
> Lew wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :
> 
>> Perhaps they are; I haven't disputed that.  I do dispute that the state of WORA 
>> had some nostalgic bygone Golden Age until some IT Tower of Babel 
>> came down and fragmented all the platforms.
> 
> You could least write a program for DOS and have it run on any DOS or
> Windows machine. Because of browsers you can't even do wora anymore

No, I'm sorry, that's not true.  For about the first fifteen years of DOS's 
existence, there were three DOSes about - PC-DOS, MS-DOS and DR-DOS.  Programs 
that worked on one didn't necessarily work on any of the others.  Furthermore, 
some DOS programs ran into trouble in Windows.  Furthermore, not every Windows 
program ran in every version of Windows.  There were also occasional 
incompatibilities between PCs even with the same DOS brand.

Actually, the state of WORA within DOS (which begs the question of the "A" in 
"WORA" - if it only runs in DOS, is it really "A"?) has improved in recent 
years.  *Now* is when you can count on a native DOS (well, Windows) program 
running in pretty near any Windows machine much more than you could in the 90s.

Also, PCs were not initially the dominant platform we think of today, so even 
if we could (which we couldn't) write a program that ported to any PC, it still 
wasn't "anywhere".

> even within Windows.  From a practical point of view, JavaScript and
> browsers mean programmers spend more time dealing with tweaking to
> make code work everywhere than they did before.  Command line stuff is
> great. It is browsers, JavaScript and forms that drive you nuts.

Again, I don't dispute that.  I do claim you are looking at the past through 
rose-colo[u]red glasses.

-- 
Lew

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Failure of Java HTTP, some puzzles for those with not enough to do Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-29 15:28 -0800
  Re: Failure of Java HTTP, some puzzles for those with not enough to do Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2011-11-29 15:41 -0800
    Re: Failure of Java HTTP, some puzzles for those with not enough to do Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-29 16:36 -0800
      Re: Failure of Java HTTP, some puzzles for those with not enough to do Ian Shef <invalid@avoiding.spam> - 2011-11-30 16:51 +0000
        Re: Failure of Java HTTP, some puzzles for those with not enough to do Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2011-11-30 11:30 -0800
        Re: Failure of Java HTTP, some puzzles for those with not enough to do Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-12-01 01:59 -0800
          Re: Failure of Java HTTP, some puzzles for those with not enough to do Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-12-01 06:47 -0800
            Re: Failure of Java HTTP, some puzzles for those with not enough to do Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-12-02 01:58 -0800
              Re: Failure of Java HTTP, some puzzles for those with not enough to do Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-12-02 07:20 -0800
                Re: Failure of Java HTTP, some puzzles for those with not enough to do Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-12-03 09:23 -0800
                Re: Failure of Java HTTP, some puzzles for those with not enough to do Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-12-03 11:28 -0800
                Re: Failure of Java HTTP, some puzzles for those with not enough to do Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-12-06 21:47 -0800
                Re: Failure of Java HTTP, some puzzles for those with not enough to do Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-12-07 07:08 -0800
                Re: Failure of Java HTTP, some puzzles for those with not enough to do Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2011-12-07 10:27 -0600

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