Walter did yo realy go Ohhhh?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Georg Wrede" <georg at nospam.org> wrote in message 
news:485A582F.6050103 at nospam.org...
>> Or you could just use Java's VM instead of trying to figure out how to 
>> make all that work.  I think that's a big part of it.  The Java VM works 
>> and is available today, so for people like Steve it makes sense to use 
>> it.
>
> Hmm. I originally took it like he's promoting the VM as /itself/ having 
> properties that make it the superior and Obvious choice. But maybe it's 
> all simply about the Java VM bein easy ubiquitous and mature.
>

I could be wrong, but I got the impression that he, like a lot of 
VM-proponents (but not all!), aren't considering those to be two separate 
concepts. That is, I suspect they might be confusing "the way things 
currently are" (ie, "VMs like the JVM have mature sandboxing and runtime 
reflection today, and such things aren't currently in non-VMs") with "the 
only way things can be" (ie, "You can't have things like sandboxing and 
runtime reflection without a VM").