[lbo-talk] Another computer great passes: John McCarthy RIP

Fernando Cassia fcassia at gmail.com
Sat Oct 29 19:19:42 PDT 2011


On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 14:01, <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
> the only thing I hate worse than Java is XML.
> Joanna

The beauty of Java is that is not ONLY a language, it´s three things:

1. A runtime environment 2. A software ecosystem 3. A language.


:)

So you can use 1. and 2. without having to write a line of Java if you don´t like it. There´s plenty of languages that run on top of the Java virtual machine: JRuby, xRuby, Jython, NetRexx...

Even Lisp and Cobol if you want.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_JVM_languages

There´s a yearly summit about new languages ported to the JVM... http://openjdk.java.net/projects/mlvm/jvmlangsummit/

H*ck, you can even write Visual Basic syntax and get it compiled to Java bytecode with Jabaco. www.jabaco.org.

FC

-- "The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers." Richard Hamming - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamming_code



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