Write Once

Write once may refer to:

  • Write once, run anywhere, a slogan for the cross-platform benefits of Java
  • Write once, compile anywhere, a slogan for the cross-platform benefits of C
  • Write-once (cache coherency), a write-invalidate protocol in computer memory design
  • Write Once Read Many, computer storage that can be written to once, but read from multiple times

Famous quotes containing the word write:

    “Do you call it doubting to write down on a piece of paper that you doubt? If so, doubt has nothing to do with any serious business. But do not make believe; if pedantry has not eaten all the reality out of you, recognize, as you must, that there is much that you do not doubt, in the least. Now that which you do not at all doubt, you must and do regard as infallible, absolute truth.”
    —Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)