Will Java go native?

[Dmitry Leskov]

On Tuesday, 24 September 2013 at 09:17:47 UTC, Chris wrote:
> 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.

If you asked a question like that, we most definitely responded. 
If you still have that email you sent us back in the day, would 
you please forward it to me?

My email address is on the Contact page of our Web site.