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Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: advantages of limbo
From: Fco.J.Ballesteros <nemo@lsub.org>
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Date: Tue,  2 Mar 2004 11:08:43 +0100
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> The Inferno environment itself may not be perfect, but access to the
> sources allows one to configure it to one's tastes.  The same is never
> going to apply to the Java VM because it always depends on the
> underlying platform.

Exactly, Java is not portable, as my students (and other profs.) find
out here now and then; the differences in the libraries always byte them
in the end; not to talk about how to do (or how to use) non-portable
services and supply them in a portable way.