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"Actually pretty decent ideas, but completely botched on implementation elsewhere" is a story that we've heard many times in the Java world... I remember the OS

"Actually pretty decent ideas, but completely botched on implementation elsewhere" is a story that we've heard many times in the Java world... I remember the OSGI folks elation as Eclipse turned to OSGI from their custom plug in system, turn to dismay as they saw how it was actually used.

DonHopkins 5y ago
Whereas TCL was a beautiful and perfect implementation of a very silly idea. Remember in 1994 just before Java, when Sun hired TCL's developer John Ousterhout, then unilaterally announced that TCL would be the official scripting language of web browsers? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ousterhout https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ousterhout http://www.softpanorama.org/People/Ousterhout/index.shtml http://www.softpanorama.org/People/Ousterhout/index.shtml And that triggered RMS into posting his controversial "Why you should not use TCL" announcement, which kicked off the Great TCL War of 1994: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12025218 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12025218 https://vanderburg.org/old_pages/Tcl/war/ https://vanderburg.org/old_pages/Tcl/war/ "Java is a DSL for taking large XML files and converting them to stack traces" -Andrew Back https://twitter.com/9600/status/90729345307521024?lang=en https://twitter.com/9600/status/90729345307521024?lang=en
pjmlp 5y ago
Well, all major Java CMS are now based on OSGI as extensibility model.