Leonard Rosenthol on Tue, 30 Jan 2001 21:53:02 -0500 (EST)


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Re: [PLUG] Java (was Re: Plugins and Mozilla)


At 8:36 PM -0500 1/30/01, Bill Jonas wrote:
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 03:54:55PM -0500, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
 There is *no* way to compile Java applications to a strictly local
 machine language.

Not true! There is at least one Java->native code product on the market (for x86 only, of course).



Are there any examples of languages that can be interpreted or compiled,
at one's discretion?

Sure - pretty much any of them. It's up to the development environment that's being used, NOT the language. For example, there are C interpreters just as there are C compilers. There are even Assembly language interpreters. However, most of the interpreters for commonly compiled languages are either used for educational purposes (ie. as part of a class) or for use as a "internal scripting language" in a software product.



It's my understanding that Perl can be translated to C

Really? That would be pretty cool to see!!


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