Walter did yo realy go Ohhhh?

[bearophile]

Walter Bright:
> I see the advantage of a VM as being if you're inventing a new language, 
> you don't have to bother writing an optimizer, code generator, or linker.

And often GC, part of the standard library, some/most external modules, DBMS interfaces, GUI widgets, etc, too :-) That's why creating a language like Boo on the dotnet was doable by a single person in few months.

Bye,
bearophile