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- From: pohl@screaming.org (Pohl Longsine)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java
- Subject: Re: Java: What's the Big Deal?
- Date: 2 Apr 1996 01:30:04 GMT
- Organization: WaveFront Communications, Inc.
- Message-ID: <4jpvus$6hu@wavefront.wavefront.com>
- References: <milodDoF9JF.K32@netcom.com> <1996Mar20.154600.12011@amc.com>
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- In <milodDoL1uy.581@netcom.com> John DiCamillo wrote:
- > curtis@amc.com (Curtis Green) writes:
- > >John DiCamillo (milod@netcom.com) wrote:
- > >: pete@borland.com (Pete Becker) writes:
- >
- > >: >There's no reason you can't write a C++ compiler that generates a Java
- > >: >bytestream.
- >
- > >: Are you claiming that arbitrary, correct (ANSI) C++ code can
- > >: be compiled to the JVM and continue to work correctly?
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- Since Java is based upon a VM with an "instruction set" one could write a
- compiler for any language, the output for which is the "object code" of the
- VM. (Unless there's some design flaw in the VM architecture that I'm
- unaware of.)
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- Any compiler gurus out there that can explain why I might be wrong here?
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