From: Ellen K. 

C++ runs on anything also.

On Fri, 20 May 2005 09:13:56 -0400, "Robert Comer"
 wrote in message
:

>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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