On Tuesday, October 22, 2002, at 10:48 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > For simple programs; command-line things that don't make reference to a > huge number of different libraries, or include all of their C-code > themselves, and don't use *any* libs, the promise of 'Run everywhere' > does hold true, still. > > It's just that things like GUI interfaces, high-level API's and such > simply don't hold to the standard 'recompile and run everywhere' > philosophy that guided the origins of Unix. (K&R simply wanted to > retain a stable development environment amongst all the hand-me-down > systems that they were scrounging.) They are complex pieces of > programming, and absent a universally accepted standard, don't > interoperate all that well. > > Java comes closer to that ideal than Unix now, but even it isn't > perfect. > > >> -- > Wherever you go, there you are. > > Bruce Johnson > Bruce: Thanks for the info. So there's not yet been an economic incentive to make a a platform independent? standard? (Am I wording this correctly?) Some would say the best hope for this is already Windows, others the promise of Linux being adopted as an alternative? I love Apple hardware (except for the mouse). Could it run Windows software if it were recompiled? Is this what programs like Virtual PC are actually doing, recompiling the software for a mac machine? It seems that although Apple's niche in the entertainment market is getting stronger, worldwide Apple is a rare machine...even rarer than in the USA. (I know the Japanese and European markets exist) Donald
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