Re: Thoughts and Opinions or something like that

["Gregory Toomey" <gtoomey@usa.net>]

I can't see where all the 'virtual machine' stuff is going.

CPU instructions are just virtual machines for the underlying microcode,
which are a virtual machine for some underlying gate logic,
which is a virtual machine for solid state physics,
which is a vittual machine for quantum machanics ...

Java has a virtual machine (listed below), compliled Prolog has the Warran
Abstract Machine, etc. The VAX (CISC) instruction set even has polynomial
instructions.

But I just can't see this is leading anywhere.


gtoomey
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"brian hiles" <bsh@rainey.blueneptune.com> wrote in message
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> In comp.lang.misc chris.danx <chris.danx@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> > Someone on these news groups suggested to someone that in order to make
a
> > reliable Virtual Machines, they needed the opinions of many
programmers...
>
> By VM do you mean the _Java_ virtual machine, bu which many language
> authors are writing languages to produce jvm bytecodes, or _another_
> VM for in which case it seems you are "reinventing the wheel"?
>
> For both cases, the best use of one's effort is the time spent reviewing
> the field for other programmers projects:
>
> http://grunge.cs.tu-berlin.de/~tolk/vmlanguages.html
>
> A fascinating site!
>
> =Brian