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Re: Updating code from jdk1.2 to recent jdk SE 1.6

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On 12/07/2012 00:19, Roedy Green allegedly wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 21:05:33 +0200, Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> wrote,
> quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :
> 
>> Forward compatible does not exist,
>  
> The words forward and backward don't add anything but confusion.  Some
> people say backward and some forward.
> 
> In theory you might have a kind of compatability where you could
> compile a 1.6 program on a 1.6 compiler and run it on a 1.2 run time
> if you did not use any of the new features.  It does NOT work that
> way.

/Code/ is (at best) forward-compatible. /Compilers/ or /runtimes/ are
(at best) backward-compatible.

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DF.

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Updating code from jdk1.2 to recent jdk SE 1.6 Sanny <softtanks22@hotmail.com> - 2012-07-10 10:07 -0700
  Re: Updating code from jdk1.2 to recent jdk SE 1.6 Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-07-10 11:26 -0700
    Re: Updating code from jdk1.2 to recent jdk SE 1.6 Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2012-07-10 20:32 +0200
      Re: Updating code from jdk1.2 to recent jdk SE 1.6 Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-07-10 11:56 -0700
        Re: Updating code from jdk1.2 to recent jdk SE 1.6 Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2012-07-10 21:05 +0200
          Re: Updating code from jdk1.2 to recent jdk SE 1.6 Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-07-10 12:56 -0700
          Re: Updating code from jdk1.2 to recent jdk SE 1.6 Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-07-11 15:19 -0700
            Re: Updating code from jdk1.2 to recent jdk SE 1.6 Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-07-11 15:50 -0700
              Re: Updating code from jdk1.2 to recent jdk SE 1.6 Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-07-11 16:41 -0700
                Re: Updating code from jdk1.2 to recent jdk SE 1.6 Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-07-11 17:03 -0700
            Re: Updating code from jdk1.2 to recent jdk SE 1.6 Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2012-07-12 00:51 +0200
        Re: Updating code from jdk1.2 to recent jdk SE 1.6 Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-07-11 23:13 -0400
    Re: Updating code from jdk1.2 to recent jdk SE 1.6 Sanny <softtanks22@hotmail.com> - 2012-07-11 00:27 -0700
      Re: Updating code from jdk1.2 to recent jdk SE 1.6 Silvio Bierman <silvio@moc.com> - 2012-07-11 13:12 +0200
      Re: Updating code from jdk1.2 to recent jdk SE 1.6 Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-07-11 14:02 -0700
        Re: Updating code from jdk1.2 to recent jdk SE 1.6 Lars Enderin <lars.enderin@telia.com> - 2012-07-12 00:06 +0200
          OT Google Groups formatting.  Was Re: Updating code from jdk1.2 to recent jdk SE 1.6 markspace <-@.> - 2012-07-11 15:16 -0700
            Re: OT Google Groups formatting.  Was Re: Updating code from jdk1.2 to recent jdk SE 1.6 Lars Enderin <lars.enderin@telia.com> - 2012-07-12 11:00 +0200
              Re: OT Google Groups formatting.  Was Re: Updating code from jdk1.2 to recent jdk SE 1.6 markspace <-@.> - 2012-07-12 10:36 -0700
        Re: Updating code from jdk1.2 to recent jdk SE 1.6 Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2012-07-12 00:54 +0200
          Re: Updating code from jdk1.2 to recent jdk SE 1.6 Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-07-11 16:25 -0700
  Re: Updating code from jdk1.2 to recent jdk SE 1.6 Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-07-11 15:15 -0700

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