On 9/1/12 4:40 AM, Jim White wrote:
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! ;-).
Kawa was always first and impressive, shortly available after the first
public, outside-of-SUNW (java-1.0(alpha/beta)2) release in Spring 1995.
For the record on other Lisp REPLs with compilers department, the J
editor started with a sexp interpreter with its release in 1997(?) By
2003, enough code was public to be a plausible Common Lisp interpreter
with a compiler to bytecode for most cases. It took until [October 2011
to become a conforming ANSI implementation][1].
[j]: http://armedbear-j.sourceforge.net/
[1]: http://blip.tv/eclm/eclm-2011-erik-h%C3%BClsman-abcl-1-0-5771267
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