Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Martin Gregorie Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: What's the best non-JVM native language to look at? Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 17:36:26 +0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <428f8206-d4f7-4fe6-b93c-8f881b498be6@googlegroups.com> <99qdnVXamdWBRErPnZ2dnUVZ8mOdnZ2d@bt.com> <52d9f24c$0$300$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 17:36:26 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="e5160e2be48f1ea550cf61512446f525"; logging-data="32188"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/8HNX2UAo+MAfc7W5uVbrev/CFwkcBsV8=" User-Agent: Pan/0.139 (Sexual Chocolate; GIT bf56508 git://git.gnome.org/pan2) Cancel-Lock: sha1:g7t/upQ4fXpd/2GgmRuOO0rX52E= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:27344 On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 22:17:32 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote: > On 1/17/2014 9:02 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote: >> On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 18:08:26 +0000, lipska the kat wrote: >>> According to lots of references on the intertubes the first C++ >>> compiler was written in something called 'C with classes' which was >>> written in ... C >>> >> Way back when C++ was the new kid on the block I remember reading that >> the first C++ compilker was actually a standard C compiler with the >> Cfront preprocessor substituted for the usual cpre preprocessor. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cfront > An interesting read that I hadn't seen before. Thanks for posting it. Coincidentally I've recently been writing C plugins, loaded explicitly at runtime via dlopen() and dlsym() and, as a result, have become fully exposed to load-time type checking. -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org |