From: "W. Wesley Groleau x4923" <wwgrol@pseserv3.fw.hac.com>
Subject: Re: ADA CORE TECHNOLOGIES ANNOUNCES GNAT-TO-JAVA SYSTEM
Date: 1997/09/19
Date: 1997-09-19T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <34228A59.7D45@pseserv3.fw.hac.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.874622854@merv
> It never makes sense to me to translate code in language A to language B just
> for the sake of having the code in language B.
Define "just for the sake". If you (one person or company) is going
to have to _maintain_ code (i.e., actual changes anticipated) for
some length of time, then a translation to a more maintainable format
_may_ be justified.
> .... People often think that it would make sense to somehow
> have JVM as a target for GCC, but if they think that then they
> have serious misconceptions about the GCC backend, or JVM, or both!
As one of those people, I would like to say that, from experience
with the UCSD p-System (including reverse assembling the Z-80
interpreter when support was not available), and having read the
JVM specs, I do not have the misconceptions you speak of. I just had
the motivation that IF it could be done, one would automatically
get byte-code from several languages instead of just from Ada.
Even a new code generator that used the gcc tree instead of the GNAT
tree would do this. I recognize that this is a bigger job than
the job ACT is undertaking. And it's certainly out of reach of my
available time and talent. But it would still be a Good Thing.
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1997-09-11 0:00 ADA CORE TECHNOLOGIES ANNOUNCES GNAT-TO-JAVA SYSTEM Robert Dewar
1997-09-12 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1997-09-13 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
1997-09-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-14 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
1997-09-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-14 0:00 ` Ralph Paul
1997-09-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-16 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-09-17 0:00 ` Ralph Paul
1997-09-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-19 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-09-19 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-09-20 0:00 ` Jay Han
1997-09-22 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-09-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-21 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-09-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-17 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
1997-09-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-16 0:00 ` Ralph Paul
1997-09-15 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1997-09-15 0:00 ` Mark L. Fussell
1997-09-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-17 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1997-09-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-19 0:00 ` W. Wesley Groleau x4923 [this message]
1997-09-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-23 0:00 ` multi-language to JVM compilers? W. Wesley Groleau x4923
1997-09-19 0:00 ` translating to Ada, was Re: ADA CORE TECHNOLOGIES ANNOUNCES GNAT-TO-JAVA SYSTEM Tom Moran
1997-09-16 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1997-09-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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1997-09-15 0:00 Marc Wachowitz
1997-09-20 0:00 Marc Wachowitz
1997-09-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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