24 Jan
2021
24 Jan
'21
11:30 p.m.
Yes and no. I actually had JavaScript (which I _knew_ that Brendan Eich wrote; sigh) in
mind. JavaScript, like NeWS, handles a wide range of display and interaction issues. Of
course, it sits on top of HTTP, but that's just a detail (:-).
-r
On Jan 24, 2021, at 13:10, Ronald Natalie
<ron(a)ronnatalie.com> wrote:
Too bad. X won (at least in Unixish systems)
and, as Rob Pike put it: Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks. Curiously,
JavaScript (another Gosling effort) is in some ways the modern version of NeWS...
You mean Java. JavaScript is a different language that Brendan Eich at Netscape
wrote for their browser.