RE: OT: Common Language Runtime for BSD/Unix/Linux/OS X/etc

["Robert Collins" <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au>]

> > You're thinking "write once, run anywhere" where what the 
> respondent below
> > was talking about is "write once, compile on any platform."
> 
> I know. Platform independent VM code is supposed to be the "killer
> app" aspect of Java. Portable source code is a very, very different
> thing which has been around a long time. 
> -- 
> Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu
> 
> 


I find it ironicthat Microsoft's first steps with Java were to propose
MS Windows only 'extensions', destroying the 'killer-app' benefits of
Java on Windows.

This from a company that can't even get 100% source code portability
between _its own OS's_.

And now they propose C#? hmmmm

Rob