Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Joshua Cranmer Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: =?UTF-8?B?QW5kcm9pZOKAlFdoeSBEYWx2aWs/?= Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2011 02:40:15 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2011 06:40:15 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="bAymlyY9SkaJNa8Tz2rerw"; logging-data="7478"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19Sr8HWBEf6OIAsIaNqeAlr+4WiX41DVlw=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.16pre) Gecko/20110305 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.10pre In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:nZICWgE8yfyATKQ8Z5D3QAaAzI4= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:4975 On 06/04/2011 12:08 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > In message, Michael Wojcik wrote: > >> ("the most portable language in the world" is a >> vapid claim, since "portable" is not well-defined and there's no >> metric for "most".) > > Most languages (including Java) that claim to be “portable” seem to be > implemented in C. Therefore they can only be ported to platforms where a C > compiler (or cross-compiler) is already available. And this, dear reader, is a wonderful example of "Completely Missing the Point." -- Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth