Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: BGB Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: =?UTF-8?B?QW5kcm9pZOKAlFdoeSBEYWx2aWs/?= Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 22:37:20 -0700 Organization: albasani.net Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.albasani.net qqn32sI902bJuwY8rABJzKVF8uUZJAN0NkL7IwWp1VFoCaJNRjViszA9ZPbPAwwojA53EWBa8yQIQAPPBF9Yjz7+so9JjTDQSqRMpPdC/eYiGPbG/Xk8U8R1xNp9i62D NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 05:40:22 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="4NMrn9pDWbYGadK4Dk04zode9eoSq6BO0ukTjkhrkWtFjmcVvroIQElhjHId9ECSvAJ+CRJ8Q+6+I/iWqMGEIeQbSP7mN2+o/pK/LxRaW9uod5FzEG0QLb+K3QQyZN1o"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:qIEnUPzI+cZuJqNIN86aJGaP2JE= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:4718 On 5/29/2011 9:21 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > In message, BGB wrote: > >> On 5/29/2011 5:45 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >> >>> In message, BGB wrote: >>> >>>> ... there is always J2ME ... >>> >>> Which is unsuited to modern ultramobile devices, as pointed out earlier. >> >> well, it can be used as a starting point ... > > I don’t think Oracle’s licence allows you to use its code as a “starting > point”. > no, not using code, but using its spec, and writing something according to the spec... for example, one can write their own version of the JVM, with their own class libraries, and their own version of the compiler, ... whether or not this is more or less effort than designing a language and VM clean is a matter of debate though, as there are merits and drawbacks either way.