D, Java? To D or not to D?

[Johan Granberg]

Frits van Bommel wrote:

> 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...

If i remember correctly both works but sometimes wine foo.exe is needed
because the program has the wrong permissions. (was sometime since I last
used wine so I might be mistaken)