>>FoxPro runs in a virtual machine, just like Java.
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>Not quite true. With java you can distribute the source code and have it compiled locally. You can't do that with VFP.

Are you confusing javascript with java? If you distribute java source, you need a java compiler or java devopment kit (jdk) to produce class files which are then run by the java virtual machine (jvm) of the java runtime environment (jre). If you distribute vfp source, you need vfp to compile it. Normally you distribute java class files which are already compiled. The java class files are then either interpreted by a jvm or compiled into native code by a just in time compiler (jit) in the jvm. It is true that there is no vfp jit compiler and it is true that not all jvms have a jit compiler.