[3222] in java-interest
Re: JavaBASIC, JavaPascal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Carroll)
Fri Nov 3 15:19:22 1995
From: Jim Carroll <jim@carroll.com>
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 95 12:55:40 est
In-Reply-To: <199511030730.XAA18345@java.sun.com>; from "owner-java-interest-digest@java.sun.com" at Nov 2, 95 11:30 pm
> From: David Gardiner <david.gardiner@unisa.edu.au>
> Date: Fri, 3 Nov 1995 09:32:37 +1030
> Subject: JavaBASIC, JavaPascal
>
> It occurred to me the other day. Why can't we develop compilers
> that use the Java object format, but use different source languages?
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> Would there be any huge hurdles in providing this capability.
> My initial thoughts would be all you would need is a language spec
> that was object-oriented (could behave in a similar way to Java/C++),
> and a compiler that turned this source into the compiled java classes.
I had the same thought when I first saw the Virtual machine spec. As a
matter of fact, I dawned on me, that with the machine spec, you go an
design a C++ compiler, that genreated Java code. Suddenly, those of use
who want pointers, structures, unions, etc... would be able to have them.
Does this sound plausible?
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