Java to C++

[Peter van Merkerk]

But it would be against the 'spirit' of Java, which is:
You program on your computer and hand out the program. No
matter what computer your customer uses, the program runs.

With programs compiled to native code, this is no longer
possible.

Unless the customer has an emulator that can run that code on his/her
platform of choice.

 

[P.J. Plauger]

Why should this not be possible?
Sure one can do that.

But it would be against the 'spirit' of Java, which is:
You program on your computer and hand out the program. No
matter what computer your customer uses, the program runs.

With programs compiled to native code, this is no longer
possible.

That was also the 'spirit' of UCSD Pascal. Except that they failed
to deal with the NUXI problem, so the P-code wasn't really portable.
And Borland went on to make Pascal a *real* programming language by
giving people a truly useful development environment centered on
an extended dialect of Pascal.

Moral: maybe Java still has a second life as a compiled language,
once the 'spirit' of "write once, test everywhere" runs its course.

P.J. Plauger
Dinkumware, Ltd.
http://www.dinkumware.com