21 Sep
1998
21 Sep
'98
1:10 p.m.
At 07:21 PM 21-09-98 -0500, Doug Yowza wrote:
Excellent idea! That's part of the reason to
choose Java :-) Sun's Java
compiler is written in Java, and generates code for the Java virtual
machine. Most of the Java runtime environment is also written in Java,
except for the machine-level glue which is written in a combo of C and
assembler.
I guess the only difference is that BCPL is significantly smaller and
simpler. I doubt that I could move Java to a new environment within a week,
whereas I'd be confident that anyone with some simple programming skills
could move BCPL, even with the limited documentation that exists.
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