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On 06/20/2011 01:00 PM, Jeff Higgins wrote:

> Java: Accounts of My Explorations.
> 1. Hello

... The maddening rattle-clank of the trucks on rails subsided as our 
train approached Java Station. Outside the dusty, smokey panes of the 
stifling car, amid the lush forest of Java, suddenly loomed a great line 
of platforms. On and on they seemed to stretch, each different and I 
hadn't been informed where to disembark. I reached for my preprocessor; 
but the brown-eyed girl, sensing my anxiety, smiled and touched my hand. 
"They are all the same" she whispered, "write once, run anywhere, we say 
here". Pulling the signalling cord, she said "Come along, we'll get off 
here and I'll show you." "We shall say hello and they will all 
understand us, and smile and welcome us."
...