From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 107f24,6f568a2e6507575 X-Google-Attributes: gid107f24,public X-Google-Thread: f891f,6f568a2e6507575 X-Google-Attributes: gidf891f,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,6f568a2e6507575 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-04-27 18:27:26 PST Path: newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!intgwpad.nntp.telstra.net!newsfeeds.bigpond.com!not-for-mail From: "Gregory Toomey" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.functional,comp.lang.misc References: Subject: Re: Thoughts and Opinions or something like that X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Message-ID: Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 11:27:51 +1000 NNTP-Posting-Host: 144.134.68.49 X-Trace: newsfeeds.bigpond.com 988420424 144.134.68.49 (Sat, 28 Apr 2001 11:13:44 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 11:13:44 EST Organization: Telstra BigPond Internet Services (http://www.bigpond.com) Xref: newsfeed.google.com comp.lang.ada:7006 comp.lang.functional:5366 comp.lang.misc:1177 Date: 2001-04-28T11:27:51+10:00 List-Id: 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 -------- "brian hiles" wrote in message news:teje2rsjqeak2e@corp.supernews.com... > In comp.lang.misc chris.danx 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