nice blog post on Majik

[Marrows, George A (GE Energy)]

> Some of you may remember reading posts from Duncan MacGregor or seeing
> the talk on GE's Majik system at this year's JVM Language Summit.
> 
> There's a new Oracle blog entry on their work here:
> 
> https://blogs.oracle.com/jtc/entry/sprinkle_some_magik_on_that
> 
> It includes a rehearsal of business reasons to move from a proprietary
> VM to the JVM.

John - thanks for posting the link. And thanks to Jim for a write-up
that is spot-on.

After much parsing, method handle wrangling, JNIing and Java2D work,
we're just at the point of starting to be able to run some of our full
applications. It's a very exciting point in the project!

One minor point - the marketing team only got their hands on the very
last letter: it's Magik with a 'g' not Majik with 'j' ;-)

-- George