D vs. C#

[Walter Bright]

Roberto Mariottini wrote:
> David Brown wrote:
>> On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 10:08:26PM -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
> [...]
>>> That isn't an advantage of the VM. It's an advantage of a language 
>>> that has no implementation-defined or undefined behavior. Given that, 
>>> the same portability results are achieved.
>>
>> It's still a VM advantage.  It helps the model where there are many
>> developers who only distribute binaries.  If they are distributing for a
>> VM, they only have to distribute a single binary.  Otherwise, they still
>> would have to recompile for every possible target.
> 
> And not only that: if my product is compiled for Java-CLDC it will work 
> on any cell phone that support CLDC, based on any kind of 
> processor/architecture, included those I don't know of, included even 
> those that today don't exist and will be made in the future.

Javascript is distributed in source code, and executes on a variety of 
machines. A VM is not necessary to achieve portability to machines 
unknown. What is necessary is a portable language design.