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On 5/31/2011 1:02 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> In message<slrniu9uj9.phi.avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>, Andreas Leitgeb
> wrote:
>
>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro<ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand>  wrote:
>>
>>> In message<is0vhm$ha$1@speranza.aioe.org>, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
>>>> The funny thing, is that Java when it came out, was supposed to
>>>> solve all these differences by putting a virtual OS between the
>>>> application and the OS, this way one writes to this one common
>>>> virtual OS (the VM) and not have to worry about the different
>>>> OS's below it.
>>>
>>> Those who knew the history of previous attempts to do this sort of thing
>>> could already predict why it wasn’t going to succeed.
>>
>> I wouldn't exactly call "one size fits *almost* all" a failure.
>
> It was never able to spread as widely as Sun originally hoped. And now we
> see attempts to fix up its flaws (like the substitution of Dalvik for the
> JVM in Android) raising the ire of Oracle, to the point where it wants to
> sabotage them.

yeah... Sun wanted world domination...

they didn't get this, but they still managed to do pretty good (putting 
Java on par with C and C++ in terms of popularity).

of course, C# is currently up there as well, so it is mostly a battle 
between C, C++, Java, and C# for the title of "most widely used 
language...".