[3219] in java-interest
Re: JavaBASIC, JavaPascal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Lorton)
Fri Nov 3 14:26:56 1995
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 1995 08:34:24 -0800
From: Michael Lorton <mlorton@eshop.com>
To: Arthur.Vanhoff@Eng.Sun.COM
Cc: david.gardiner@unisa.edu.au, java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
In-Reply-To: <199511030203.SAA20373@jakarta.Eng.Sun.COM> (Arthur.Vanhoff@Eng.Sun.COM)
> > It occurred to me the other day. Why can't we develop compilers
> > that use the Java object format, but use different source languages?
>
> This is a great idea! There is already a working ADA to Java VM compiler!
I don't understand how that could work. Most languages can do things
-- forge pointers, overwrite stack frames, leak memory -- that Java
cannot. Certainly there is no way to compile those errors into Java
VM. By extention, there are probably huge groups of idioms that are
untranslatable.
Am I missing something?
M.
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