begin quoting Andrew Lentvorski as of Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 11:55:26PM -0800: > Christian Seberino wrote: > >Let's all write Java implementations of <INSERT YOUR FAVORITE LANGUAGE > >HERE> > >and make JVM be the universal VM. I'm cool with it. > > It's not just that. Another important part about this is that some > companies explicitly spell software development J-A-V-A. You may not > *install* anything non-approved directly on the machine, but often they > will let you call all manner of jar libraries.
Presumably with a systemwide approved policy.txt, one hopes. > Being able to pull in a jar and run Your Favorite Annoying Language(tm) > is a good thing. Yup! Although, I think Sun screwed up just a little with the semantics of running code with "java -jar"... -- Java bigot. TCL bigot. Pascal bigot. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
