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Subject: Re: Java portability (was: An Ada IDE and discussions)
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 11:32:36 +0200
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On Mon, 23 Jul 2001 10:53:36 +0200, Jean-Pierre Rosen <rosen@adalog.fr> wrote:
>This has nothing to do with Java, and all to do with the JVM. Any language
>compiled to the JVM (including and not limited to Ada) will do the same.
>
>Remember that Java is the less portable of all programming languages, since it
>runs on only one machine. It is so unportable that to run it, you must emulate
>the only machine on which it runs !

Native compilers for Java do exist as well.

Gerhard
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