On 8/30/09, Fernando Cassia <fcassia@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > No, you´re wrong. It´s a platform AND a language. Actually the truth is somewhere in between. It is technically just a language, but in order to achieve the goal of platform-independence (notice the terminology there?) it requires an appropriate "VM" to be installed on the target machine. It's really just a much more powerful version of the old "high-level" languages that required run-time interpreters like BASIC or the Windows scripting language. Technically, a "platform" is comprised of both hardware and hardware-specific OS & software, so Java isn't really a platform, especially since the interpreter is necessarily different for each target machine hardware & OS, making it impossible to point to any one setup and say "that's the Java platform". Mark _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
