I started using Kawa in 1996 and spent ten years telling folks it is the greatest thing for the JVM nobody had heard of. ;-)
It probably doesn't count as a "scripting" language but I think Fujitsu NetCOBOL was one of the earliest non-Java languages that compiled to JVM bytecode that I recall. I think it was announced by (concurrently with?) the Java 1.0 release in January. I never used it so I don't know when it was actually available. I don't see any clear documents that say what the release date was, but the copyrights do date from 1996. https://www.google.com/search?q=cobol+jvm+fujitsu+1996 Similarly for Ada. This article is timestamped May 1996: http://www.adahome.com/Tutorials/Lovelace/java.htm In any case, Kawa gets my strong endorsement as oldest JVM bytecode compiled language with a REPL. I don't even recall what the second JVM language (bytecode compiled or not) with a REPL that I encountered was (LISP being so obviously the right choice anyhow! ;-). Jim On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 5:51 PM, John Cowan <johnwco...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 7:30 PM, Patric Bechtel > <patric.bech...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I think NetRexx is about the same age - June '96 AFAIR > > Wikipedia says version 0.50 was released in April '96. It > steam-engines when it comes steam-engine time, as Uncle Al says. > > -- > GMail doesn't have rotating .sigs, but you can see mine at > http://www.ccil.org/~cowan/signatures > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "JVM Languages" group. > To post to this group, send email to jvm-languages@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > jvm-languages+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/jvm-languages?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JVM Languages" group. To post to this group, send email to jvm-languages@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to jvm-languages+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jvm-languages?hl=en.
