On 01-01-2011 17:00, Bob Melson wrote: > is. What I do suggest is that a lot of the scut work involved can be > avoided through the use of the APIs found in most architecturally neutral > tools, such as perl or java or php. That way the application programmer > can concentrate on writing the code to do what he envisions (the what), > rather than waste time worrying about how to interface to the network or > graphics or any other subsystem (the how). I would suggest that's a Which is what dot-Net also does, except that someone else (Mono) had to produce its equivalent for non-Windows. Which is why I suggested the possibility that the Obit tool might be more portable than its author thinks. Furthermore, Silverlight IS a Microsoft Windows development environment which Microsoft claims IS portable (and may even be a renaming of dot-Net for all I know). -- Wes Groleau Carlos Santana’s Solution to Drug and Education Problems http://Ideas.Lang-Learn.us/russell?itemid=1539