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From: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject: Re: Android?Why Dalvik?
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 17:43:05 -0700
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In article <is6jev$bi8$1@lust.ihug.co.nz>, Lawrence D'Oliveiro says...
> 
> In message <is4gtl$c2e$1@dont-email.me>, Joshua Cranmer wrote:
> 
> > On 05/31/2011 11:05 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> >
> > Funny. I thought C/C++ was supposed to be portable.
> 
> C certainly is. ?Write once, run everywhere? is more true of C than it is of 
> Java; a portable compiler like GCC means C is the most portable language in 
> the world.

Well, technically, you still have to have a gcc compiler available for 
your platform, but gcc *is* available on every popular platform *I* can 
think of. More importantly, you have to rebuild from source each time 
you deploy your app to a new platform. You don't, with Java.
 
> > With Java, it doesn't matter which compiler I use to link the binary, they
> > all the do same thing. Even if I don't program my code in Java. ;-)
> > 
> > Java has extreme ABI portability--any compiler, any OS, any arch.
> 
> At the cost of putting the burden on the recipient of your code to figure 
> out how to run a .jar file on their system.

Nope. Batch files and shell scripts work just fine, and it's easy enough 
to include one with your app. Or you can create a native executable 
stub.


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Steve Sobol - Programming/WebDev/IT Support
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