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- From: badger@phylo.life.uiuc.edu (Jonathan Badger)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java
- Subject: Re: Java: What's the Big Deal?
- Date: 3 Apr 96 15:59:31 GMT
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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- pohl@screaming.org (Pohl Longsine) writes:
-
- >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.)
-
- Indeed. This is entirely possible. Those who have been around for
- awhile may remember UCSD Pascal, a system that used a virtual machine
- in a very similar way to Java. There were Fortran and COBOL compilers
- that outputed "p-code" (as the VM code was called) as well. If Java
- really takes off in reality in the future (and not just in media hype
- like today) I would imagine that lots of compilers for various
- languages will be created that will output code capable of being
- interpreted by Java interpreters.
-