OT: Language for the ages

[Jules Richardson]

Gil Carrick wrote:
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>>>>Native-compiled Java.
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>>>Ruled out.
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>>>Gil
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>>I missed the OP doing that - what was the reason? 
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> Proprietary to a single vendor.

Well the syntax is... but I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing 
(as otherwise there'd be a bazillion ways of doing any one thing and 
we'd end up with C++ :-)

Far as I recall the bytecode spec is freely available though, so anyone 
can write a compiler, VM, native compiler, or other utility.

Plus of course the flexibility's there to override most of the core 
stuff if needs be (dynamically, if one so choses), so it's not the case 
at all that you're stuck with the Sun way of doing things (agreed that 
the Web application side of it is a bloody nightmare though!)

cheers

J.