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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand>
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Subject: Re: Android?Why Dalvik?
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In message <MPG.284ce826ee59e4e9989769@news.justthe.net>, Steve Sobol wrote:

> You write Android apps in Java (with the exception of some low-level
> code which is written in C; I understand that's mostly done for games).

I see a lot of portable software also done in C. For example, the Python and 
other interpreters used in the Scripting Layer for Android 
<http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/> are largely unchanged C code 
from their versions on other platforms.