17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
5:17 p.m.
"Vladimir Z. Nuri" writes:
Many languages are machine independent. Thats hardly a new feature.
you don't get it, as others have pointed out repeatedly. you conveniently ignore Frantz' points about the well-known difficulties of porting C.
Who said anything about C, Detweiler. Smalltalk. Scheme. Postscript. There are dozens of them out there. All of them are totally machine independent. You could run Smalltalk images byte for byte identical on large numbers of different processors years and years and years ago. Byte codes aren't new either -- Smalltalk's virtual machine, PSL and others had them decades ago. The rest of your comments are equally silly. Perry