Posted by satyakaran on 04/05/07 05:49

On Apr 4, 6:22 pm, Mary Pegg <inva...@invalid.com> wrote:
> K.J.Williams wrote:
> > See my interjections to your comments below..
>
> Good, that's where we expect to find them.
>
> >> > HTML is a pseudo-programming langauge
>
> >> HTML is not a programming language at all -- it's a data format, much
> >> like JPEG or MP3 is.
>
> > I disagree.
>
> > HTML is an interpreted langauge that has a simple method of handling
>
> Sheesh, I've been reading some weird stuff in this thread. HTML is not
> a data format, it's not a programming language, it's a Markup Language.
> Though if you've got to explain what that is to someone, calling it a
> "data format" is probably a very good place to start.
>
> > yeah but the designer of Java intended the langauge to be portable to
> > any machine that supports it and run it from a JVM, but its running
> > from a second compiled form called byte code which depends on the JVM
> > to run it.
>
> I was pretty sure that the original whitepaper [1] mentioned bytecode
> and JVMs and yes, it does:http://java.sun.com/docs/white/langenv/Neutral.doc1.html#402
>
> > Theres none for Windows XP, and secondly the compiler by gcc is has
>
> Cygwin?
>
> >>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Computing
>
> > No scheme is fool proof for any long term plan
>
> Something I can agree with you about.
>
> >> --
>
> Shpxvat Google Groups. Toby's got a perfickly good sig-sep, but Google
> ignores it. Google's "do no evil" mantra is starting to lose out to
> a Microsoft-style "WE make the standards, you peasant" attitude.
>
> [1] Can I just say that I read it when it came out? Can I?
>
> --
> "Checking identity papers is a complete waste of time. If anyone can
> be counted on to have valid papers, it will be the terrorists".

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