Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jerry Stuckle Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: questions re Javascript Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2015 10:48:00 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 56 Message-ID: References: <83722e36-4afe-4077-b936-229450613698@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2015 14:45:47 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="8b88f1819ae50b8afa97a5cef254b303"; logging-data="13756"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/biWTSsx2QhfqueMboddVdQOQ/dtnVMa8=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:WBjEEvpULUoy01Qh+yX1sGwdmRo= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:32783 On 10/2/2015 10:47 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote: > On 9/27/2015 10:59 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: >> On 9/27/2015 8:38 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote: >>> On 9/25/2015 9:56 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: >>>> result is machine code. However, an additional step is required to >>>> link >>>> in necessary libraries and other files. >>>> >>>> That does not mean the output of the compiler is not machine code. >>>> It's >>>> just not executable-ready machine code. Once the link step is done, >>>> the >>>> program is ready to run without any other program such as a jvm. >>> >>> Exactly. >>> >>> Which made the original claim of the output being directly executable >>> false. >>> >>> It is not. >>> >>> The output from an additional step make it directly executable. >> >> I never said it was directly executable. Those are your words. I said >> the output is machine code - which it is. > > Not true. > > Eternal hope wrote: > > #Well when I went to school (jeez, was it *that* long ago) a compiled > #language was one where the compiler took source code as input and > #produced native machine code that was directly executable on the > #underlying hardware as output. > > Lew replied: > > #You misunderstood your classes. > > You replied: > > #No, he didn't. It was that way in my classes in the 1960's and 1970's, > #also. > > Arne > And yet once again you show your ignorance and lack of understanding. But that's quite normal for you. -- ================== Remove the "x" from my email address Jerry Stuckle jstucklex@attglobal.net ==================