OT: Language for the ages

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Jules Richardson wrote:
> 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.
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> 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++ :-)
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> Far as I recall the bytecode spec is freely available though, so anyone 
> can write a compiler, VM, native compiler, or other utility.

Indeed, IBM has two brands of Java.

Peace...  Sridhar