Hi
"Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> ?? You can't port either of them to other platforms !!!
SH> The Java Mafia and all their henchmen say that you can port them to
SH> other platforms. False advertising?
no ... but porting is not needed, bevause a Java Program is ByteCode, which
runs on a VM. (read some Java FAQ to fully understand that.)
The essence is, that the same peace of code will run on any computer for
which a Java VM exists.
>> JavaScript is embedded in the HTML page ... so either the browser
>> (for a particular platform) has an interpreter for it or not....
SH> If the browser has an interpreter for the JavaScript, then what do
SH> you call the interpreter? Would it not make sense to call it a Java
SH> Interpreter?
No ... It's a JavaScript Interpreter.
(Java is NOT JavaScript)
SH> Hence the relationship I see between JavaScript and Java,
SH> just like the relationship between a Basic Program and a Basic
SH> Interpreter.
but this is absolutely wrong.
(As many people told you already)
>> You can't port Java, because it runs on a virtual CPU (Java VM).
>> If there exists a Java VM for any particular machine, than it can
>> run Java programs.
SH> This is like saying that if a machine has a micro-processor, then it
SH> can run machine language programs designed for it, or that it could
SH> run any higher-level programming language program provided the program
SH> is properly written for it, and it is running an interpreter properly
SH> designed for it, or a facility for running a program compiled
SH> specifically for use on said machine. Hence the relationship between
SH> the scripting language and whatever the facility that handles it. The
SH> name of the scripting language and the name of
SH> the facility that handles it may be similar or different. Anyway, it
SH> doesn't matter; however, the relationship between the two is clear.
What kind of scripting language do you speak of ??
There is no Scripting language in Java.
SH> Sam Heywood
CU, Ricsi
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