On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 19:59:12 -0500, Dan <dan6@pobox.com> wrote:


The DVB-T MHP set top boxes contain a Java interpreter so that various
hardware independent applications can be downloaded into the STB from
the DVB (MPEG2) transport stream over the air.

Java and other interpreted languages make sense in situations in which
the code must be execution platform independent and heavily restricted
to avoid data security problems such as in cellular phones and set top
boxes.

In industrial controllers the IEC (6)1131 language family is widely
used with data types suitable for the industrial controller
environment. I don't see much benefit for using Java in such devices
anyway.

Paul