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[Walter Bright]

Georg Wrede wrote:
> 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 see the advantage of a VM as being if you're inventing a new language, 
you don't have to bother writing an optimizer, code generator, or linker.

Of course, LLVM should make that advantage moot as well.