Re: Portability

[Manor Askenazi]

> and the chips resident in automobiles, device drivers, medical equipment...

Prime targets for multi-agent simulation platforms, indeed!

Well, the speed argument is reasonable. Having said that my Indy already
has a (MIPS) JIT compiler for java (and so does my 586 laptop, and so does
your Sparc...). Besides, with built-in support for threading --- Java may
actually make more sense with respect to fast implementation than C does.
Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon, and for the ... well you
get the idea.

M.

PS> Sure, you can write threaded code in C, C++ and sometimes even in
    Objective-C, but how often does this really happen? Could it be that
    simplicity and language support actually matter?

PPS> Could it be that I am turning into a language bigot? :-)