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:

    “I read, with a kind of hopeless envy, histories and legends of people of our craft who “do not write for money.” It must be a pleasant experience to be able to cultivate so delicate a class of motives for the privilege of doing one’s best to express one’s thoughts to people who care for them. Personally, I have yet to breathe the ether of such a transcendent sphere. I am proud to say that I have always been a working woman, and always had to be ...”
    —Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911)