There seems to be a common misconception that I am not
sure is entirely clear here that I wanted to clean up. I apologize
to those of you who already know this stuff. Alain may
even know this, but the way this was approached seemed
a little off to me.
Alain Farmer wrote:
> I suppose that the ideal programming language would
> then be Java, so as to make it multi-platform and even
The Java language itself isn't what makes it cross platform.
It's the Java Bytecodes that the JVM then interprets which
gives it's cross platformness. For instance, there is an
Ada95->Java Byte Code compiler which makes Ada95
just as cross-platform as Java is touted to be. Metacard
also has a MetaTalk->Java Byte Code compiler which
they have not bothered to clean up and release because
the JVM's can't give the required performance yet (We
should listen to Scott about this before we think about
using Java for cross platform reasons).
So you can get all the cross platformness of Java w/o
actually using the Java language. The key is in the
Java Byte Codes not the Java language.
-- Michael --
