I can't find anything in the post you link that supports your conclusion. The author seems to be a person from the research area, in the team for F# maybe? Who

I can't find anything in the post you link that supports your conclusion. The author seems to be a person from the research area, in the team for F# maybe? Who do you think had more weight in the decision, this guy or the chief architect for .NET that came from Borland? Of course Java was the model for the VM thing, but that's the what, not the why, the reason they, in the words of the gp, went apesh··· with the bytecode thing. Actually I can neither be in the mind of whoever made the call, just make an educated guess, but at least it has a base on facts that I was paying attention to at that time.