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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Subject: Re: Ada and JVM?  Why not AdaVM?
Date: 01 Feb 2001 08:32:27 +0100
Date: 2001-02-01T08:32:27+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87g0hyames.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m3zog7i84b.fsf@yakisoba.forte-intl.com

Ronald Cole <ronald@forte-intl.com> writes:

> Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:
> > The Python and Emacs VMs are quite widespread and platform independent
> > (the Emacs VM has probably been ported to more platforms than the
> > JVM).  And both support loading arbitrary bytecode (AFAIK, Perl does
> > not), so it's really possible to adapt an Ada compiler to this
> > platform.
> 
> Last time I checked, the emacs "vm" was a lisp interpreter.

Emacs has both, a Lisp interpreter and a VM (or "bytecode
interpreter").  Obviously, you would target the bytecode and not the
Lisp interpreter.

> Why would anyone want an Ada to emacs-lisp translator?

Why would anyone want an Ada to Java translator? ;-)



  reply	other threads:[~2001-02-01  7:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-27 16:47 Ada and JVM? Why not AdaVM? chris.danx
2001-01-27 21:17 ` David Starner
2001-01-28  8:44   ` Florian Weimer
2001-01-29 23:40     ` Ronald Cole
2001-01-30  1:27       ` Brian Rogoff
2001-01-30  8:28       ` Florian Weimer
2001-01-30 19:29         ` Ada and JVM? Why not AdaVM? ms .net vm Singlespeeder
2001-02-01  0:01         ` Ada and JVM? Why not AdaVM? Ronald Cole
2001-02-01  7:32           ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2001-02-02 17:33             ` Ray Blaak
2001-02-01 11:57           ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2001-02-01 17:35             ` Ray Blaak
2001-02-01 16:19           ` joswig
2001-01-30 21:12   ` Nick Roberts
2001-02-02  0:19     ` Larry J. Elmore
2001-02-02  3:41       ` Robert Dewar
2001-02-03  3:49         ` Larry J. Elmore
2001-02-05 19:46         ` Tucker Taft
2001-02-05 20:31           ` Ted Dennison
2001-02-05 20:58           ` Pat Rogers
2001-01-27 22:31 ` gdemont
2001-01-30  2:41 ` Julian Morrison
2001-01-30  7:08   ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2001-01-30 12:55   ` John English
2001-01-31 21:05   ` chris.danx
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