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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand>
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In message <slrniuam7g.phi.avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>, Andreas Leitgeb 
wrote:

> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote:
>
>> In message <is30d8$5fl$1@dont-email.me>, Joshua Cranmer wrote:
>>> Besides, all autoconf gets you is setting up the hundreds of #defines.
>>> It does nothing else with respect to the #ifdef mess.
>> Still better than anything Java can offer.
> 
> This is now about Java versus C, isn't it?
> Java has one big advantage: The compiled thing is typically still
> "portable". For this, it would "need" to do any OS-#ifdef'ery at
> runtime, anyway, not at compile-time.

But isn’t Java supposed to be “statically” typed?