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

[Leonard Rosenthol <leonardr@lazerware.com>]

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!!


LDR
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