About a new HLL

[Carlos Querol]

Just tossing in some spare change.
(and testing that my reply/post is working :-)

I have (since before java came on the scene) believed that the future 
of program execution lies in "byte code" compiled programs executing 
on a portable interpreter.  It would be nice to be able to port an OS 
to a new platform and have the (compiled) programs from all the other 
existing platforms execute without modification.  The traditional 
arguments against this is that it adds overhead to the program (due 
to the byte code interpeter layer).  But today (and in the future) 
the rise of distributed systems would make this a requirement for 
successful application execution accross hetergeneous environments.
Along these lines, a question:  Does any one know how Plan 9 
distributes process execution to the compute servers?  I have read 
the FAQ (admitedly a while ago) and found no reference to this.  I am 
wondering if they set up a transparent execution layer, or if the 
process has to exist as a binary the compute server can execute.

Carlos Querol
quer0008@tc.umn.edu