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Re: the history of Java in Android (was Re: What’s Your Least Favourite Programming Language?)

From Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.misc, alt.folklore.computers
Subject Re: the history of Java in Android (was Re: What’s Your Least Favourite Programming Language?)
Date 2026-08-29 21:57 +0000
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On Sat, 29 Aug 2026 15:24:51 -0300, Kragen Javier Sitaker wrote:

> I'm pretty sure they weren’t using the Sun JDK’s compiler from Java
> source to Java bytecode, because Dalvik couldn’t interpret the
> standard stack-oriented JVM bytecode.

The whole point about using Sun’s JDK was precisely to get its
compiler.

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  Re: What’s Your Least Favourite Programming Language? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2025-10-31 13:28 +0100
  Re: What’s Your Least Favourite Programming Language? John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-10-31 08:17 -0700
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    Re: What’s Your Least Favourite Programming Language? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-01 06:26 +0000
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      Re: What’s Your Least Favourite Programming Language? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-03 20:29 +0000
        Re: What’s Your Least Favourite Programming Language? BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> - 2025-11-03 14:55 -0600
          Re: What’s Your Least Favourite Programming Language? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-03 23:10 +0000
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              Re: What’s Your Least Favourite Programming Language? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-04 20:32 +0000
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    Re: What’s Your Least Favourite Programming Language? Kragen Javier Sitaker <kragen@canonical.org> - 2026-08-27 21:11 -0300
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              Re: the history of Java in Android (was Re: What’s Your Least Favourite Programming Language?) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-08-29 01:30 +0000
                Re: the history of Java in Android (was Re: What’s Your Least Favourite Programming Language?) Kragen Javier Sitaker <kragen@canonical.org> - 2026-08-29 15:24 -0300
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