Removed "Actually
Visual Basic a widely used programming environment uses as well a virtual machine."
VB does not use a virtual machine. It compiles to p-code, which is not the same thing. The p-code is specific to intel hardware and the windows operating system, so it doesn't qualify as a virtual machine. --Dmerrill
Additional information we might use somehow:
[1] and
[2]. Permission to use the second reference directly is under
Public Domain Resources/Foldoc license
--Hannes Hirzel