Alain : I suppose that the ideal programming language
would then be Java, so as to make it multi-platform ..
Michael Fair : 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-platform-ness.
Alain: Yes, I know that it is not the Java language
but rather the Virtual Machine concept and the
underlying bytecodes that makes Java multi-platform.
Java is .. um arguably the best implementation of the
VM approach though (so far).
Michael Fair : 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).
Alain: That would indeed be interesting. Scott?
Michael Fair : So you can get all the cross
platformness of Java w/o actually using the Java
language.
Alain: That was precisely what I meant to convey in my
previous post on this subject. Without resorting to
Java, we could nonetheless inspire ourselves with some
of its underpinnings ...
Michael Fair : The key is in the Java Byte Codes not
the Java language.
Alain: ... Like the Virtual Machine, the bytecodes,
and so on.
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