[Info-vax] Java portability and VMS

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> On 18-02-2011 10:12, hb wrote:
(snip)

>> If you look at this from another viewpoint you have to admit that Java
>> itself is not portable. Java runs only on one platform: the JVM, the
>> Java Virtual Machine.

I thought that there was a Java front-end for gcc, that would
generate code as gcc would.
 
> That has always been Stroustrups point.
 
> And it is correct, but it really does not mean anything.

Also, there was once work on hardware support for JVM, but I
haven't heard much about that for years now.
 
>> Here that is, how good the JVM support is on VMS. For example, whether
>> the JVM's expectations on a filesystem were mapped to the ODS2/5 file
>> system and vice versa.

-- glen