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Subject:   JVM multi-language years ago
Date:   2003-10-30 14:35:29
From:   sklar
Response to: JVM multi-language years ago

Thanks for the link. I stand corrected on the technical possibility of hosting another language on the JVM.


However, the risk of only spending 2 seconds on finding a link is that you don't actually digest what's behind the link. The list you cited refers to an article that pretty much demolishes the idea that the JVM is hosting languages other than Java in any practical sense. Even the "rebuttal" which highlights a Smalltalk-like language hosted on the JVM, doesn't provide a path for more widely deployed languages to be implemented on the JVM. And Sun certainly isn't pushing for it.
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  • JVM multi-language years ago
    2003-10-31 11:24:22  anonymous2 [View]

    The "article" is by Roger Sessions, a notorious Microsoft shill. And putting the word rebuttal in quotes the way you did smacks of prejudice (I did this myself deliberately to illustrate the point).

    It's true that Sun isn't pushing for another language -- why would they? They have nothing to gain and a lot to lose.

    I like Open Source, but the idea of a match between Parrot and the CLR in the commercial world is just ludicrous. The JVM, on the other hand, is a "contendah".
  • JVM multi-language years ago
    2003-10-31 05:38:21  anonymous2 [View]

    Maybe I'm not fully understanding your point, but what about Jython - http://www.jython.org/ - ? I've only briefly looked at it, but isn't that essentially Python running on a JVM?

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