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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,953e1a6689d791f6 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: fac41,953e1a6689d791f6 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: fdb77,953e1a6689d791f6 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-Thread: 10a640,953e1a6689d791f6 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a640,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,953e1a6689d791f6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,953e1a6689d791f6 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,953e1a6689d791f6 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public X-Google-Thread: f79bb,953e1a6689d791f6 X-Google-Attributes: gidf79bb,public From: Alexandre Oliva Subject: Re: Eiffel and Java Date: 1996/10/28 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 193953172 sender: oliva@pinheiros references: <550sm2$sn1@buggy.news.easynet.net> content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII organization: IC - UNICAMP - Campinas, SP, Brazil mime-version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.92) newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.sather,comp.object,comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.clos,fr.comp.objet Date: 1996-10-28T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Jean-Michel P Decombe writes: > In article <550sm2$sn1@buggy.news.easynet.net>, Sacha@easynet.fr (Vincent > WEBER) wrote: >> different). So... Why don't Eiffel and Java merge ?? Maybe it would be a grat > I believe that Java is not the death of other languages. Java demonstrates > that it's possible to write a language which is really > platform-independent and "distributed". Nothing prevents Meyer from > writing a new version of Eiffel, totally portable and based on a Virtual > Machine, then port this VM on a large number of platforms, including a > JITC, etc. With the promise of a true platform-independent language, I'm I seem to remember having seen an announcement of an Eiffel compiler that generates Java ByteCode, runnable on any JVM. Was I dreaming or this has already become true? -- Alexandre Oliva mailto:oliva@dcc.unicamp.br Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil