Will Java go native?

[Chris]

On Friday, 20 September 2013 at 05:23:15 UTC, Dmitry Leskov wrote:
> On Thursday, 19 September 2013 at 09:44:30 UTC, Chris wrote:
>> Yes, the whole issue of decompilation was also an issue. 
>> Funnily enough, a few years ago I wrote an email to Excelsior 
>> asking if you guys offer a discount for academia. Our project 
>> would have qualified as "non-commercial use". But I never got 
>> an answer. So I started looking for alternatives, and here I 
>> am now :-)
>
> We respond to all requests that look legit. Sending from a 
> university email address certainly helps, not least because our 
> responses to free email users, especially Gmail, often end up 
> in the Junk Mail folder, probably because they talk about 
> "free", "download", and such...
>
> --
> Dmitry

I sent the email from my university email address and the spam 
filter is clever enough to know that it shouldn't filter answers 
from email addresses I have sent an email to, even if the words 
"free" etc appear. If in doubt, at least it asks me. Anyway, I 
switched to D and don't regret it. Also how do you define 
"legit"? If I send an email with a simple question "do you offer 
a discount for university projects?" or the like, why am I not 
entitled to an answer? Why is it not "legit"? Because I didn't 
include an elaborate description of the project? Why should I, if 
I don't even know that you offer a discount? Would be a waste of 
time, if the answer is a plain "No!". This said, I don't rule it 
out that you answered the email and that it got lost on the way. 
This happens sometimes.