Way back in February, in response to an ignorant-sounding comment to a previous posting, I talked about how Write Once languages have never quite done it for me. As is often the case, I tried to restrict myself to my personal experience rather than generalize from that. Today, while searching for another article I'd written, I came across this lengthy response to that little blog post: Keep an Open Eye » Program Way back in February, in response to an ignorant-sounding comment to a previous posting, I talked about how Write Once languages have never quite done it for me. As is often the case, I tried to restrict myself to my personal experience rather than generalize from that.Today, while searching for another article I’d written, I came across this lengthy response to that little blog post: Keep an Open Eye » Programming Languages Dynamics.InfoWorld blogs don’t accept track-backs, because otherwise we bloggers would spend all our time killing track-back spam. So this is the first I’ve seen that essay from March. JBSurveyer raised a bunch of interesting issues, although he also read my posting as being much more generalized than I intended, and tended to put a lot of words in my mouth that I never said. I’d be happy to reopen the discussion here. Have any languages that claim to be write-once fulfilled their promise? Why or why not?Try to stick to your personal experience, though. I’m not interested in political pronouncements, or in cheap shots against vendors. Software Development