VMs are it
Jon Udell says that VMs are the platform, not the underlying OS:
Eclipse runs on the JVM, Chandler runs on Python, various things run on the CLR (and Mono), Longhorn apps will run on the CLR. One way or another, your platform will be a VM. Its capabilities, class libraries, OS bindings, and language bindings will matter more to you than the underlying OS or language.
Yet another way that Lips and Smalltalk presaged the future...
Comments
[Patrick Logan] July 1, 2004 12:17:24.011
I've been told on my blog it is annoying to constantly point out that Lisp and Smalltalk rule.
BTW, the CLR and JVM suck as VMs. 8^)