New Technology Is Software Holy Grail: HEC Virtual Machine is Platform and Language Neutral

The HEC Virtual Machine (HECVM) is a new development platform which promises both programming language and hardware neutrality. It will allow software vendors to protect themselves from being anchored to any one operating system.

(PRWEB) March 22, 2002 - Wordware Publishing today announced the publication of Bill Blunden's new book, Virtual Machine Design and Implementation in C/C++ (With CD-ROM) now available at on-line booksellers. Blunden's book explains how to break the last barrier for virtual machines: complete software and hardware neutrality.

"Most engineers are painfully aware that programs written for one platform, like Windows, must be essentially rewritten, or 'ported,' to run on other platforms, like Mac OS X. Porting software is notoriously expensive and it typically degrades the integrity of a program's source code,'" said Blunden.

In contrast to other virtual machines that tie developers to a given language or a particular OS, the virtual machine Blunden developed can be run on any number of difference operating systems and accommodate a variety of programming languages.

Blunden added, "Simplicity was my core design requirement. After reading the design documentation and perusing the source code, any system engineer should be able to target the virtual machine, using publicly available compilers, in a matter of days. Alternatively, using my book's detailed documentation others can design and implement their own virtual machine in short order."