I would agree with Claus' suggestions and prefer the definition "a widespread platform independent language" Widespread is just too hard a metric to define, though I think Perl is still probably most common and wide spread, and distracts from the main point which is less controversial.
Hmmm... how about "a widespread language aiming for platform independence"? Java's definitely not platform independent (ie. try running it on *BSD... big problems).
But, we don't need to kill the message totally because of it. :)
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Justin Clift
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