Re: Possible to write compiler to Java VM?

"Peter Seibel" <seibel@sirius.com> writes:
|So I'm asking you all: how easy/hard/impossible would it be to write a
|compiler for your favorite language(s) that compiles to Java VM
|byte-codes.


bnm@bbt.com writes:
>[...] A few companies are working on this as we speak; sorry no
>details. An NCSA/Mosaic fellow mentioned Ada-95 as one language
>in the works by some other company.


Although Java is a programming language which is syntactically similar
to C++, it is semantically much closer to Ada 95.


Some pointers on using Ada for applet development follow (extracted from
the Ada-Belgium home page).


* Intermetrics is building a product to develop Java applets in Ada 95.
    More info on URL:
        http://www.inmet.com/java.html


* ACM SIGAda dedicated a website to promoting the use of Ada95 as a
    major language for programming Web and Internet applets and
    applications, servers and browsers. URL:
        http://www.acm.org/sigada/wg/web_ada/index.html


* Another Ada and WWW/Java page is in the "Resources for Ada" section of
    the HBAP (Home for the Brave Ada Programmers). URL:
        http://lglwww.epfl.ch/Ada/Resources/Ada_Java.html


I hope this helps.


Dirk Craeynest
dirk@cs.kuleuven.ac.be (for Ada-Belgium e-mail)


PS: Is anyone looking at the feasibility of retargetting GNAT (the
        freely available GNU Ada 95 compiler) to Java Byte Code?


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