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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: Ada and JVM?  Why not AdaVM?
Date: 01 Feb 2001 08:32:27 +0100
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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? ;-)