On Monday 22 Aug 2005 16:37, Alexey N. Solofnenko wrote: 
> > A Java VM, compiler and/or interpreter can be written in Haskell, as much
> > as a Haskell compiler/interpreter can be written in Java. I don't really
> > understand the argument of why this is 'a feature of Java'.

> I should have added "efficiently".

I think there are enough examples of functional languages
being used to implement efficient compilers...
... and of those compilers generating efficient code.

> Generic languages, on the other hand, allow writing higher 
> level languages.

Again, high-level languages can also be (and often are) written in
high level languages, rather than something like Java.

> Good scripting languages can use Java primitive directly allowing for a 
> full interaction between high level and Java code. 

God forbid anyone take this definition as fact.

> I use this feature all the 
> time with languages like Jython and Groovy.

Great.  But I wonder if this talk of implementing languages in Java wouldn't 
be more on-topic in the mailing lists of those projects?

Martin

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