On Tue, 6 Sep 2016 16:03:56 -0400, Tony Harminc wrote:
>
>"JVM translations of programs written in the Java programming
>language, provided all of such translation is solely controlled by the
>JVM;".
>
>One could argue that this precludes anything not actually written in
>the Java language. Or one could argue that it's Java bytecodes or
>class files that are or are not eligible, in which case Scala would be
>fine. But any argument that says Scala is eligible would work just as
>well to argue that COBOL compiled into a Java class would be eligible;
>something I expect IBM would not agree to.
>
Sounds like a job for Micro Focus.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-hpenterprise-software-microfocus-idUSKCN11D2EU
Oops!
>I suppose the bottom line, as always, is that IBM can decide to
>interpret this the way it wants at the time it wants.
-- gil
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