OT: Language for the ages

[Gil Carrick]

...
> >> 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.
> 
> Indeed, IBM has two brands of Java.

Tell it to Microsoft.

Gil

> 
> Peace...  Sridhar