From: "Geo" 

You gotta be kidding, it's not even cross JVM in some cases.

Geo.

"Robert Comer"  wrote in
message news:428de1e8$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Cross platform.
>
> - Bob Comer 
>
> "Paul Ranson"  wrote in message
news:428dcdeb{at}w3.nls.net...
> > But C++ can do all that. Managed/unmanaged. GC/non-GC, or both in the
same
> > app.
> >
> > What is the advantage of Java as a language given there's no obvious
> > advantage to it as an environment? I suppose a more flexible 'goto'
> > mechanism...
> >
> > Paul
> >
> > "Adam"  wrote in message
> > news:428db7a2$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> >> Rubbish.
> >>
> >> For speed I can show you a load of independant studies where
> >> inline/dynaminc compiling etc means that the load time might be longer
> >> but the execution time might actually be shorter.
> >>
> >> For predictability...nope. You can control the gc as you wish
& there
are
> >> a number of other ways you can make very predictable java systems.
> >>
> >> Adam
> >
> >
>
>

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