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[Paulo Pinto]

Walter Bright Wrote:

> On 12/17/2011 10:36 PM, Russel Winder wrote:
> > In all of this, the issue of portability of code has seemingly been
> > missed.  One of the main reasons for Java in 1995 (other than the
> > trendiness of Web browser programming) was portability across all
> > platforms.  This made the sys admin of provision of resources  for
> > programming classes significantly less than it was.  C, C++ and D cannot
> > match this even today.  Back then it was a Big Win (tm).
> 
> I find this an odd statement because the Java VM is written in C, so therefore 
> it is on the same or fewer platforms than C.


Which specific Java VM are you talking about?

They come in all flavors, written in Assembly, C, C++ and even Java.