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:

    “If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get written at all. It might be better to ask yourself “Why?” afterwards than before. Anyway, the force from somewhere in Space which commands you to write in the first place, gives you no choice. You take up the pen when you are told, and write what is commanded. There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.”
    —Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)