[gameprogrammer] Re: Carmack on Java phone games
- From: Jake Briggs <jacob_briggs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 08:58:12 +1200
>Marketing was there. He asked, "So... what you are saying is that with
>this language you can write code that will run anywhere?" and Gosling
>said something like "Well, yeah... theoretically...". And the rest is a
>marketing blunder like the world hasn't seen for a very long time.
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> Bob Pendleton
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I have only been software engineering for 2 years (after varsity) so my
opinions are, of course, based on limited experiance. However, the
company I work for produces an app, with java 1.3 and sisc. It makes
heavy use of xsl to produce html, scheme, sql etc.... Anyway, to the
point. We have targetted the engine at IBM's JVM, version 1.3, on
solaris (thats what our biggest client uses). We have never had any
trouble running the same engine on various other JVM's from Sun and IBM,
on both x86 and whatever Suns solaris runs on, on both windows and
various Linux's. Well there was one problem with IBM's JVM where a class
had a public variable, which on Sun's JVM was private. It seems to me
that java bytecode is pretty damn portable, between major JVM's and
popular operating systems on normal hardware. I see what your saying
though, this app could never run on a mobile phone :)
Jake
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