Java and Python

[A.M. Kuchling]

In article <mailman.1016524290.13974.python-list at python.org>, 
   Steven Majewski wrote:
> Nobody supports "Java", although often someone supports particular
> implementations of Java. ( Sun supports J2SE SDK, Apple supports

For some definition of "supports".  Back in December I ran into a Java
VM bug that was reported to Sun in 1999 but doesn't seem to be fixed
in either the VM in Netscape 6.2 or in IBM's 1.3 JVM.  See my
Dec. 18th entry at http://www.amk.ca/diary/2001/dec.html.

--amk                                                             (www.amk.ca)
Nothing I've ever written has reached 1.0.
    -- Greg Ward at IPC7, on using small version numbers