Wow, a pointer to an old page of mine, that's weird to see on HN. This post was originally from comp.sys.newton.misc, back when I was a PhD student. Here was

Wow, a pointer to an old page of mine, that's weird to see on HN. This post was originally from comp.sys.newton.misc, back when I was a PhD student. Here was the thread: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/comp.sys.newton.misc/Kb0JoVv2ljA/discussion https://groups.google.com/d/topic/comp.sys.newton.misc/Kb0Jo... The discussion was originally about Java on the Newton, and someone had made the goofy suggestion that Java was based on NewtonScript. Patrick Naughton jumping in was an interesting ending to the thread. As a side note: four years later I actually wound up writing the only version of Java released on the Newton (Waba). http://cs.gmu.edu/~sean/projects/newton/waba/ http://cs.gmu.edu/~sean/projects/newton/waba/