On 12/18/11 1:00 PM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
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.
Bootstrapping the Java implementation regresses to the same question, so
it can be safely discounted. Far as I can tell C is on more platforms
than C++ so we can discount C++ as well. It would be interesting to hear
about Java implementations written entirely in assembler.
Andrei
