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: Translator, Compiler, Interpreter and Java Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 22:10:06 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 39 Message-ID: References: <00e382b4-e046-4b84-aeda-ba718a9f19be@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 02:08:04 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="8b88f1819ae50b8afa97a5cef254b303"; logging-data="11588"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19GEAeTVUo8ighfnTkCQByz7a47nqmLU6I=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:6I2/xk6UwBGA1bAfeIWnUPcLZsQ= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:32816 On 10/5/2015 10:01 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote: > On 10/3/2015 10:41 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: >> On 10/2/2015 4:17 PM, Lew wrote: >>> On 9/25/2015 10:32 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: >>>>> code to a byte code. But this byte code does not run natively; it >>> >>> Bytecode (one word, btw) is also not Java. >>> >> >> Then what is it? Can you execute a BASIC interpreter against it (many >> versions of BASIC can also be stored as byte code). Or Python? Or any >> of the other bytecode interpreters out there? >> >> If the bytecode is not Java, then any virtual machine should be able to >> execute it. > > ???? > > Byte code is specific for its VM just like native code > is specific for the ISA. > > Maybe you would be less confused if you made a habit of > using "Java Virtual Machine byte code" and "Java language". > > Those two are technically independent, but share some name and history. > > Arne > Once again you don't understand what's going on. But that's nothing new with you. -- ================== Remove the "x" from my email address Jerry Stuckle jstucklex@attglobal.net ==================