comment from James Gosling on multi-language VM

[Fernando Cassia]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 8:19 PM, John Rose <john.r.rose at oracle.com> wrote:

> Has anyone looked at the possibility of compiling languages other than
> Java to the Java bytecodes?
>

xRuby compiles early Ruby to Java Bytecode
https://code.google.com/p/xruby/

Jabaco compiles Visual Basic style source to Java Bytecode (Freeware IDE)
www.jabaco.org
(big opportunity missed by Sun by not completing Project Semplice)

The number of JVM languages is quite high actually...

http://www.drdobbs.com/jvm/a-long-look-at-jvm-languages/240007765
see also
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_JVM_languages
FC


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