Sun to sink in the west?

The core and essence of Java is the VM (Virtual Machine) which is a computer that exists only as an emulator/simulator/interpreter running on the various examples of real computer hardware. The VM is designed to execute the compiled Java language efficiently and to provide security features that would be hard to do any other way. A lot of effort went into making it work well and securely on the internet.

Think of it as a mask that the real computer wears so every computer looks just the same to programs written in Java, so you don't have to rewrite them for every computer.

The Java language also comes with a huge set of libraries, written in Java, that provide complex and powerful features to the programmer, ie, user interfaces, database access, networking, remote processing, server functions, you name it.

Looked at as just a language, it is just a paste up of C/C++ with some of C++'s most baroque features removed or improved, then tweeked to live on a VM. It is mostly designed to not frighten C programmers. It should have been some flavor of Lisp, but that would have been too scary for the PHBs and many average programmers.

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A low-volume pinglist dedicated for all the thread jesters out there--you know who you are...8^)

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How could I be John Kerry, when the severs for John Kerry and the DNC all run on Linux?

Looks like another sideways slam to me at the fine folks who run this site on LAMP technologies.

Come on GE, why don't you just come right out and call Jim a leftist for using Linux?

As I've told you a dozen times before, because he's not a leftist nor are all Linux users. The ones we have to watch out for are the ones that spend all their time pushing it on everyone, then deny there are any leftist connections at all, such as the posse we see on this thread.

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