Re: Java Illusion (fwd)

[Hakan Ardo <hakan@debian.org>]

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Hi,
here is a reply to an old mail on the list, don't know if anyone is
intrested...

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Date: Sat, 06 Sep 1997 18:40:47 -0400
From: Brent Noorda <brent@nombas.com>
To: Hakan Ardo <hakan@debian.org>
Subject: Re: Java Illusion (fwd)

>> I took a look at the Project Mnemonic pages you pointed me to (thank you).
>> It looks like an interesting effort.  As I've mentioned, our company
>> develops javascript language tools with our own javascript implementation.
>> If there is some way we can get our version of javascript into the mnemonic
>> browser, without giving away our companies crown jewels, then I'd like to
>> make a go of it (we're already going to be in two browsers, one of them
>> freely distributed but also OEMed).  Our philosophy of getting paid for our
>> software may not entirely job with the mnemonic philosophy, but if there's
>> a safe way fo us to give away a module "only for distributed and use with
>> mnemonic blah blah blah..." then I'd like to do it.  Do you think that
>> would work?  Who should I talk to?
>
>We want the sourcode of the main mnemonic distribution to be free (to for
>example allow anyone to port it to there platforms) and have therefor
>chosen the GPL licence for it.
>
>So if you can't except that for your implementation I can se no way for it
>to be in the main distribution, and because of that not be the "official" 
>javascript implementation for mnemonic. 
>
>However, you are ofcourse very wellcome to write a separate mnemonic 
>module for your language and distribute it yourselfe. The tech details of
>how this will be done is not decided just yet. But you are more than
>welcome to participate in the design process :)

I understand.  At this point we don't intend to give all of our source
away.  It probably is not too difficult for some gifted programmer to make
an adequate implementation of javascript.

As for the details of how your modules might work, I know of someone who
may be able to help.  As part of our own javascript work, making run-time
extensions to the language that run on a wide variety of platforms, we have
come up with a multi-platform module solution that works pretty well.
Mark, one of my coworkers, has written an article accepted by Dr. Dobb's
describing how this works and supplying the source code for the module
system.  That module system may be just what you need and as we've already
prepared it for open publishing that part of the code is available.  The
article will either appear soon or dr dobbs will lose their right to
publish it.  In either case, if this multi-platforms rn-time module
architecture appeals to you you may want to contact mark@nombas.com and see
if he's interested in helping out (he's already a very busy guy, probably
too busy to add one more thing to his plate, but you never know...).



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