Could I use Java or c#? [was: Re: re-writing college books]

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At 10:31 PM +1100 11/13/06, mikeiscool wrote:
> On 11/13/06, Glenn and Mary Everhart <everhart at gce.com> wrote:

> > If there is some construct that NEEDS to be interpreted to gain something, it
> > can be justified on that basis. Using interpretive runtimes just to link
> > languages, or just to achieve portability when source code portability runs
> > pretty well thanks, seems wasteful to me.
>
> You think source code portability is good enough such that runtime
> portability isn't really needed?

Anything beyond source code portability tempts the customer into use on
a platform where the developer has not tested.
-- 
Larry Kilgallen