Darren New wrote:
Um, sure. Show me a 10-year-old Linux program or Mac program that runs without recompiling?
The beauty of Free Software is that you have the code so it doesn't really matter if you have to recompile. :)
I'll grant you that Java stuff is probably the most portable compiled code out there, yes. And Sun too has worked hard to maintain backwards compatibility in the JVM at the expense of improving the language.
For certain definitions of the word "compiled" Java is a compiled language. Emacs Lisp is portable to more hardware architectures (anyone emacs has been compiled) and is a compiled langauge (using your definition of compiled) and has been around far longer.
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