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Oh, targeting a good VM is a huge win over a typical machine language for an implementer. My prediction is specifically that the inter-language paradise some expect will never come…

At a technical level, virtual machines are not the panacea many folks seem to think. Certainly, VM byte code languages are often simpler than silicon processors' machine languages;…

If this were our (Mozilla's) strategy, it's hard to understand why we'd release our code under an open source license, and why we'd insist on every standard we implement being free…

I've been a participant in GNU since 1990. I've been a maintainer of GNU Emacs, GDB, Guile, and (briefly) EGLIBC, but many others have contributed a lot more than I have. Mlynarik'…

I don't understand why so many commenters on this thread consider verbal abuse a mark of sincerity. You can say everything you need to say without it. Mlynarik has pursued this sty…