OT: Write Once Run Anywhere?
- Posted by Shawn Pringle Jul 13, 2008
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I have been keeping count of the number of platforms EUPHORIA runs on. There will be four not counting DOS32 in the svn whereas Sun's Java platform only is available for Windows, Linux and Solaris. Four platforms if you count the distinct CPU implementations for Solaris.
There are Java programs that cannont be upgraded. The developers go to the new java whereas the new java leaves the old platform behind. There used to be ten platforms. Suddenly, you can no longer support a platform because of what people at Sun decide.
Hey, Jeremy. Why don't you pass me the C code for EUPHORIA. I've got a old big endian macos box lying around. Let's see if we can do better than Java.
Shawn Pringle