>The web is the only platform aside from perhaps some assembly languages that is that stable and that ubiquitous. The first part I agree with. The second, I do

>The web is the only platform aside from perhaps some assembly languages that is that stable and that ubiquitous. The first part I agree with. The second, I don't understand. .NET and Java are way more universal than assembly language unless you really split hairs and pretend "any byte code generated by a machine that ends up as assembly = assembly."