[Info-vax] The Kotlin language, something for VMS as well?

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 7/13/2017 6:28 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 7/13/2017 6:23 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> P-system was the same as a JVM.  (I have long said that the Java
>> concept was nothing but the P-System warmed over.)
> 
> The concept is exactly the same.
> 
> And I don't think the differences in language or VM made the
> difference.
> 
> The difference is how computing had changed in those 25 years.
> 
> The world was not ready for p-system when it showed up. The world
> was ready for Java when it showed up.
> 

Yes, but the point I always try to make is what if the P-system had
continued to be developed instead of abandoning it only to re-invent
it from scratch decades later?  How much further ahead would that
particular facet of the IT world be?  And it's not the only example.
STVOS vs. POSIX?

bill