D vs Java

[Kyle Furlong]

kris wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> "kris" <foo at bar.com> wrote in message news:4420779B.6020604 at bar.com...
>>
>>> It would be more interesting if this were entitled D vs C++. After 
>>> all, isn't that (as Mattias indicated) the target "competition" ?
>>
>>
>> We've already had those threads in spades <g>. 
> 
> True <g>
> 
> Did anyone mention DDL? Given that it would make D the only compiled 
> language I've heard of with a runtime link-loader, that would seem to 
> have some bearing?

Just what I was thinking. Can DDL make compile once, run everywhere possible? (assuming that is an idiom we would like to support)