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From: brian hiles <bsh@rainey.blueneptune.com>
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Subject: Re: Thoughts and Opinions or something like that
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 18:20:11 -0000
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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