D vs VM-based platforms

[Walter Bright]

Jascha Wetzel wrote:
>> It's *already* abstracted away from the target machine, why add another
>> layer of abstraction?
> 
> to have a format for distribution that's still abstract but not human
> readable.

There's no point to that, since there are very good bytecode => java 
source translators. Running your source through a comment stripper would 
be about as good.