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Andrew Plotkin wrote:

> Andrew Plotkin <erkyrath@eblong.com> wrote:
> > John Colagioia <JColagioia@csi.com> wrote:
> >> The libraries would be huge.  However, compiled to compact Z-Code
> >> rather than Java
> >> Bytecode, you'd be able to fit far more in any given machine.
> > But this is neither flexibility or extensibility, which were the
> > claims you originally made.
> Okay, I read your other followup and I now see that I totally
> misunderstood what you mean by "extensible".

Yeah, I had thought my literal meaning--that for any given platform, the Z-Machine
could be expanded to do more things than the JVM--was obvious.  The ambiguity was
on my side, entirely.  Sorry about that.


