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Re: Java vs C++

Date	2011-02-07 22:07 -0500
From	Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: Java vs C++
References	(2 earlier) <iil6on$qvo$1@lust.ihug.co.nz> <iilaco$dd0$1@news.eternal-september.org> <iinjbi$7j3$6@lust.ihug.co.nz> <4d4f54fc$0$23753$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <iiqbji$q89$6@lust.ihug.co.nz>
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On 07-02-2011 22:00, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> In message<4d4f54fc$0$23753$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 06-02-2011 20:53, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>> In message<iilaco$dd0$1@news.eternal-september.org>, Joshua Cranmer
>>> wrote:
>>>> I would venture a guess that most C or C++ code isn't as easily portable
>>>> to 64-bit platforms as you would think ...
>>>
>>> Most of the C/C++ code I deal with is open-source, and essentially all of
>>> that is portable between 32-bit and 64-bit nowadays. As well as across
>>> non- x86 architectures, for that matter.
>>
>> Without ifdef's ????
>
> Relevance being?

That it is not portable - it just support a number of platforms.

>>> Ironic, isn’t it, that the early Java slogan was "write once, run
>>> everywhere”...
>>
>> anywhere not everywhere
>
> Is Java for anyone, or everyone?

The slogan used "anywhere".

(which is why the acronym is WORA not WORE)

Arne

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