Darren New <dne### [at] san rr com> wrote:
> nemesis wrote:
> > substituting the irrelevant term "bytecode" for "managed code":
>
> Bytecode comes from Smalltalk, where each opcode was a byte. "Managed
> code" means your resources are managed by the VM. So they really do mean
> different orthogonal things.
But that's not the point. The point is that "bytecode" running in a "VM" were
suplanted by "managed code" because that sounds better to manager ears: if
it's managed, then it's code that know its place and works in schedule. ;)
Microsoft are marketing geniuses.
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