OT: Language for the ages

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Gil Carrick wrote:
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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 
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>>a bad thing 
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>>>(as otherwise there'd be a bazillion ways of doing any one 
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>>thing and 
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>>>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.
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>>Indeed, IBM has two brands of Java.
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> Tell it to Microsoft.

That's a different story.  A very long one at that.

Peace...  Sridhar