Software's always been painful to run and use. >It used to be that you compiled an executable, copied it onto the target computer and it worked. Java had been

Software's always been painful to run and use. >It used to be that you compiled an executable, copied it onto the target computer and it worked. Java had been marketed last century as a 'write once, run anywhere' language. Tells you a lot about how portable executables in other languages were.