OT: Language for the ages

[Jules Richardson]

Gil Carrick wrote:
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>>>What would you write it in?  Clearly, you'd want to be 
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>>independent of 
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>>>a particular software vendor, so the likes of Visual BASIC 
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>>isn't an option.
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>>Native-compiled Java.
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> Ruled out.
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> Gil

I missed the OP doing that - what was the reason? Pretty much any 
language is going to be natively compiled in this scenario surely? 
Java's one of the few where there's the option to run interpreted code 
(which might be useful in this situation)

cheers

Jules