Walter Bright Wrote: > On 12/17/2011 10:36 PM, Russel Winder wrote: > > In all of this, the issue of portability of code has seemingly been > > missed. One of the main reasons for Java in 1995 (other than the > > trendiness of Web browser programming) was portability across all > > platforms. This made the sys admin of provision of resources for > > programming classes significantly less than it was. C, C++ and D cannot > > match this even today. Back then it was a Big Win (tm). > > I find this an odd statement because the Java VM is written in C, so > therefore > it is on the same or fewer platforms than C.
Which specific Java VM are you talking about? They come in all flavors, written in Assembly, C, C++ and even Java.
