Re: Designing Lisp from scratch

On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 07:21:46PM -0400, [email protected] wrote:
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> Based on entries I found at Wikipedia, the code that survives is not the  
> same one that was originally released by Netscape.  The open source  community 
> didn't like the code Netscape released, and they started from  scratch.

That's right, but the project was kickstarted by the open source release 
from Netscape. If you look at other open source browsers, you will find 
that few have gotten this far (KHTML comes to mind).

I guess whether or not Netscape (the software) can be said to have 
survived depends on a philosophical question about whether Netscape 
rewritten from scratch is still Netscape. On that question, I would 
answer "no" (they are not the same object in the sense of Lisp's EQ), so 
I guess I will have to retract my earlier statement that Netscape has 
survived.

Regards,

Bob

-- 
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds,
and the pessimist fears this is true.

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