[1544] in java-interest
Re: Systems Programming Oriented Java
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John D. Ramsdell)
Thu Sep 7 10:03:26 1995
To: wrs@newton.apple.com (Walter Smith)
Cc: java-interest@java.sun.com, ramsdell@linus.mitre.org
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 06 Sep 1995 19:21:20 -0800."
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Date: Thu, 07 Sep 1995 07:12:11 -0400
From: "John D. Ramsdell" <ramsdell@linus.mitre.org>
Walter Smith wrote:
> Rather than a new dialect, one could add a _few_ optional "unsafe"
> constructs, such as untraced pointers and unsafe casting, to Java.
This may be all that is needed for Modular-3, but I'm not sure it is
all that is needed for Java. What about pointers to procedures, for
example. Doesn't this require new types and syntax?
At some point, one wants the ability to run low level systems
programming applications with a C-like runtime system rather than a
Java-like runtime system. The rules for using the language with the
differing runtime systems must change. I suspect Modular-3 has
multiple runtime systems. Some would say that changing the semantics
of the runtime system constitutes a new language.
John
PS. By the way, I find Modular-3 is quite interesting. Others should
check it out.
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