key to portability is sourcecode binding

3.30: adda/key to portability is sourcecode binding:
. dalvik-vs-mono:

"( J2ME was always crippled by the phone vendors
who never wanted to get important APIs into the stack
so that they can bind the developers to
their implementation.)

. what they are calling an implementation
is simply all that boring translation work;
the first thing you have to do on a new platform
is make a backend for your translator
that will map your preferred language
to their version of library calls .
. this is why having a source-to-source translator
is the most efficient way to portability .
3.31:
. it requires a lisp-like infrastructure
that makes it easy to automate all the rules
that one usually applies to programming;
ie, translating from pseudocode to the target code .