D, Java? To D or not to D?

[Frits van Bommel]

Daniel Keep wrote:
> Frits van Bommel wrote:
>> Daniel Keep wrote:
>>> Linux can support PEs (ie: .exe files); that's what Wine is for.
>>
>> Read the first sentence that you quoted again. run _directly_. As in: 
>> you can type the name of the app at the prompt and it runs (without a 
>> batch file, script or loader application in between) as long as it's 
>> in the PATH variable.
> 
> I thought you *could* do that.  I remember reading an article somewhere 
> on how the list of executable formats in Linux was open-ended, and you 
> could add new stuff to it.
> 
> Maybe I'm just getting senile really, really early...
> 
> Ah, here's something: http://www.linux.it/~rubini/docs/binfmt/binfmt.html
> 
> I must have assumed that Wine added this functionality for Windows 
> executables.  Silly me.

Well, I'm not that sure either, since it's been a while since I used 
Wine. But when I last used it, you had to run something like "wine 
program.exe" IIRC...