From: William Djaja Tjokroaminata Date: 2002-09-28T04:25:11+09:00 Subject: Re: R I think we *may* have the options of either following a path more like Perl or a path more like Java. I think it took so long before Perl was really popular and commonly accepted in the corporate/business world. Java took a much shorter time, but I guess people can argue that it is Sun's muscles that moved it. I just wonder that when James Gosling made a language that is interpreted but strongly typed, whether it was for technical reasons or for business reasons (or both). Regards, Bill =========================================================================== Patrick Bennett wrote: > Perl has done just fine making it in the corporate/business world, and > it is (more or less) typeless as well.