Java > Scala

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-12-18 21:29, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 12/18/11 1:00 PM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> Walter Bright Wrote:
>>
>>> On 12/17/2011 10:36 PM, Russel Winder wrote:
>>>> In all of this, the issue of portability of code has seemingly been
>>>> missed. One of the main reasons for Java in 1995 (other than the
>>>> trendiness of Web browser programming) was portability across all
>>>> platforms. This made the sys admin of provision of resources for
>>>> programming classes significantly less than it was. C, C++ and D cannot
>>>> match this even today. Back then it was a Big Win (tm).
>>>
>>> I find this an odd statement because the Java VM is written in C, so
>>> therefore
>>> it is on the same or fewer platforms than C.
>>
>>
>> Which specific Java VM are you talking about?
>>
>> They come in all flavors, written in Assembly, C, C++ and even Java.
>
> Bootstrapping the Java implementation regresses to the same question, so
> it can be safely discounted. Far as I can tell C is on more platforms
> than C++ so we can discount C++ as well. It would be interesting to hear
> about Java implementations written entirely in assembler.
>
>
> Andrei

JNode is: "Java technology based operating system implemented in the 
Java language with a very small assembler nano-kernel".

http://www.jnode.org/

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg