>Alain: I expected that this would be the case. But
>perhaps it is not so much Java that is interesting, as
>it is its underlying concepts e.g. the Virtual Machine
>that can run anywhere securely. Would it be possible
>to implement these concepts into OpenKard, without a
>single drop of Java? Does such an idea appeal to the
>programmers of our group?
Alain,
this is unnecessary. The VM would be much to generic for our needs. We
have already decided that we'll encapsulate OS-specific stuff, which will
make porting a matter of re-coding half a dozen of fundamental classes and
the rest accesses these classes and will thus work without changes.
Since a cross-platform HyperTalk would be a VM in its own right, we would
become even slower than Java if we added another VM underneath that.
Cheers,
-- M. Uli Kusterer
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