> > > Bottom line is that while I laud Miguel's enthusiasm and his technical
> > > proficiency, I think in the end he's going to get shafted by one of the
> > > biggest shafters on the planet.
> >
> > Hard to dispute with all the evidence from past events.
> >
>
> My crystal ball says that MS will build a VM for other OS platforms if
> necessary. With the improvement in hardware speed, the VM will become
> the controlling layer of software, not the OS.
>
> -Robert
I should have read that article more closely:
http://eiffel.com/doc/manuals/technology/bmarticles/sd/dotnet.html
It says that the CLR (VM) is not an interpreter like the JVM is, but is
just a JIT (Just In Time) compiler, yielding complete machine-code.
...which makes me want to take my crystal ball on the road and charge...
-Robert
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