Doug wrote:
IBM had VisualAge for Cobol which, if it was like their VisualAge for Smalltalk and VisualAge for Java, ran on IBM's universal VM(UVM). So while the standard Sun JVM might be tough to do it with, IBM had already done this with their UVM.
Sure. I was only talking about the JVM, which (as far as I know) doesn't support things like decimal arithmetic natively. Just as an example.
Just because it is running does not mean Microsoft will not threaten their patented IP is in it and want you to stop using it, pay them millions, or just use Windows instead of your favorite other OS. Do you know for a fact that the mono CLR is completely free of Microsoft patented stuff?
No. Do you know for a fact that Java is? :-) How would you possibly go about proving such a thing?
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